Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule

UBL-CR-166

Layer en16931·Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does UBL-CR-166 mean? A UBL invoice should not include the AccountingSupplierParty Party PostalAddress Country Name

Why did my invoice fail UBL-CR-166?

The invoice should not contain the element cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress/cac:Country/cbc:Name, i.e. a country name inside the seller address country element. This is one of the EN 16931 "cardinality restriction" (UBL-CR) warnings: the UBL 2.1 schema allows the element, but it maps to no business term in the EN 16931 core invoice model, so a compliant core invoice must leave it out. EN 16931 identifies the seller country by its code alone (BT-40, cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode); a textual country name has no corresponding business term. Receivers may ignore or reject data carried in such elements, so remove it or move the information to the supported business term.

Official rule text

A UBL invoice should not include the AccountingSupplierParty Party PostalAddress Country Name

Common causes

Your invoice generator emits the full UBL 2.1 structure and populates cbc:Name even though EN 16931 does not use it
Mapping from an internal/ERP data model copies every available field into the UBL output instead of only the EN 16931 business terms
A template or example invoice from a non-EN 16931 UBL context (e.g. generic UBL samples) was reused without stripping unsupported elements

How do I fix it?

<cac:Country>
  <cbc:IdentificationCode>SI</cbc:IdentificationCode>
</cac:Country>

Check your invoice against this rule

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