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DE-R-002

Layer peppol·Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does DE-R-002 mean? If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, the group "SELLER CONTACT" (BG-6) shall be provided.

Why did my invoice fail DE-R-002?

A Peppol BIS 3.0 national rule for Germany: when both supplier and customer are located in Germany, the seller contact group (BG-6) must be provided. This gives German buyers a direct contact at the seller for queries about the invoice. In UBL, BG-6 is cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact.

Official rule text

If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, the group "SELLER CONTACT" (BG-6) shall be provided.

Common causes

• cac:Contact missing from the supplier party
• Contact data stored only at buyer side or in notes
• ERP export omitting contact fields when they are empty in the master data

How do I fix it?

<cac:Contact>
  <cbc:Name>Anna Schmidt</cbc:Name>
  <cbc:Telephone>+49 30 1234567</cbc:Telephone>
  <cbc:ElectronicMail>billing@example.de</cbc:ElectronicMail>
</cac:Contact>

Related rules

DE-R-001 · DE-R-003 · DE-R-004 · DE-R-005 · DE-R-006 · DE-R-007 · DE-R-008 · DE-R-009