DE-R-003

fatalPeppol BIS Billing 3.0profileUBLBT-37

The element "Seller city" (BT-37) shall be provided.

Why it fails

The seller city (BT-37) is missing. EN 16931 allows a country-only address; XRechnung does not.

How to fix it

Add the city to the seller's postal address (UBL cbc:CityName).

What the validator checks

UBL — context (/ubl-invoice:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]

cbc:CityName[boolean(normalize-space(.))]

Related rules

Part of DE-R — XRechnung via Peppol.

• DE-R-001
• DE-R-002
• DE-R-004
• DE-R-005
• DE-R-006
• DE-R-007
• DE-R-008
• DE-R-009
• DE-R-010
• DE-R-011
• DE-R-014
• DE-R-015
• DE-R-016
• DE-R-017
• DE-R-018
• DE-R-019
• DE-R-020
• DE-R-022
• DE-R-023-1
• DE-R-023-2
• DE-R-024-1
• DE-R-024-2
• DE-R-025-1
• DE-R-025-2

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This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 rule: an invoice can be perfectly valid EN 16931 and still be rejected by it.