NL-R-001

fatalPeppol BIS Billing 3.0profileCIIUBL

For suppliers in the Netherlands, if the document is a creditnote, the document MUST contain an invoice reference (cac:BillingReference/cac:InvoiceDocumentReference/cbc:ID)

Why it fails

A Dutch credit note has no reference to the invoice it corrects.

How to fix it

Add cac:BillingReference/cac:InvoiceDocumentReference/cbc:ID with the original invoice number (BT-25). In the Netherlands a credit note without it cannot be matched and will be rejected.

What the validator checks

CII — context /rsm:CrossIndustryInvoice/rsm:ExchangedDocument[some $code in tokenize('81 83 381 396 532', '\s') satisfies normalize-space(ram:TypeCode) = $code][$supplierCountryIsNL]

//ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeSettlement/ram:InvoiceReferencedDocument/ram:IssuerAssignedID

UBL — context cbc:CreditNoteTypeCode[$supplierCountryIsNL]

/*/cac:BillingReference/cac:InvoiceDocumentReference/cbc:ID

Related rules

Part of NL-R — Netherlands.

Check your own invoice against NL-R-001

…or paste the XML instead

Nothing is stored, and the whole invoice is checked, not just this rule. A PDF only works if it is Factur-X / ZUGFeRD — a PDF with the invoice XML inside it.

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