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GR-R-001-2: When the Supplier is Greek, the Invoice Id first segment must be a valid TIN…

fatal UBL

What this error means and how to fix it

A national rule of Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 for the country in the rule prefix (for example NO, DK, IT, SE, GR): it usually applies when the seller is in that country. This is an error: the invoice is rejected until it is fixed.

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This error needs information only you have, so it is not repaired automatically. The free check shows every finding in the file with its location; if other errors in the same file are in the automatic set (totals, VAT breakdown, rounding, element order), the result page offers the corrected file for 9 €.

Rule text

[GR-R-001-2]-When the Supplier is Greek, the Invoice Id first segment must be a valid TIN Number and match either the Supplier's or the Tax Representative's Tin Number
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatal/ubl-invoice:Invoice/cbc:ID[$isGreekSender] | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote/cbc:ID[$isGreekSender]string-length(normalize-space($IdSegments[1])) = 9 and u:TinVerification($IdSegments[1]) and ($IdSegments[1] = /*/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyTaxScheme[cac:TaxScheme/cbc:ID = 'VAT']/substring(cbc:CompanyID, 3, 9) or $IdSegments[1] = /*/cac:TaxRepresentativeParty/cac:PartyTaxScheme[cac:TaxScheme/cbc:ID = 'VAT']/substring(cbc:CompanyID, 3, 9) )

Source: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 Schematron, UBL (OpenPeppol, docs.peppol.eu validation artefacts 3.0.21).

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