EN16931 / XRechnung / Peppol BIS 3 Validator

NL-R-005: For suppliers in the Netherlands, if the customer is in the Netherlands, the…

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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Rule text

[NL-R-005]-For suppliers in the Netherlands, if the customer is in the Netherlands, the customer's legal entity identifier MUST be either a KVK or OIN number (schemeID 0106 or 0190)
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatalcac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:CompanyID[$supplierCountryIsNL and $customerCountryIsNL](contains(concat(' ', string-join(@schemeID, ' '), ' '), ' 0106 ') or contains(concat(' ', string-join(@schemeID, ' '), ' '), ' 0190 ')) and (normalize-space(.) != '')

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

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