Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule
UBL-CR-194
What does UBL-CR-194 mean? A UBL invoice should not include the AccountingSupplierParty Party AgentParty
Why did my invoice fail UBL-CR-194?
This EN 16931 rule warns when the UBL element cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:AgentParty is present: the invoice should not include an agent party nested under the seller. The core model knows only the parties defined by its business groups (seller BG-4, buyer BG-7, payee BG-10, seller tax representative BG-11); a nested agent party is not among them. The element is not forbidden by UBL itself, but it lies outside the EN 16931 core invoice model, so remove it to keep the invoice fully conformant and interoperable.
Official rule text
A UBL invoice should not include the AccountingSupplierParty Party AgentParty
Common causes
- Agency or broker relationships exported from the ERP into the party structure
- A tax representative wrongly mapped here instead of cac:TaxRepresentativeParty
- Schema-driven generator populating all optional party structures
Related rules
UBL-CR-001 · UBL-CR-002 · UBL-CR-003 · UBL-CR-004 · UBL-CR-005 · UBL-CR-006 · UBL-CR-007 · UBL-CR-008
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