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SE-R-001: For Swedish suppliers, Swedish VAT-numbers must consist of 14 characters.

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

[SE-R-001]-For Swedish suppliers, Swedish VAT-numbers must consist of 14 characters.
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatal//cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party[cac:PostalAddress/cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode = 'SE' and cac:PartyTaxScheme[cac:TaxScheme/cbc:ID = 'VAT']/substring(cbc:CompanyID, 1, 2) = 'SE']string-length(normalize-space(cac:PartyTaxScheme[cac:TaxScheme/cbc:ID = 'VAT']/cbc:CompanyID)) = 14

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

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