Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule

UBL-CR-285

Layer en16931·Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does UBL-CR-285 mean? A UBL invoice should not include the PayeeParty PartyLegalEntity CorporateRegistrationScheme

Why did my invoice fail UBL-CR-285?

cac:PayeeParty/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cac:CorporateRegistrationScheme is outside the EN 16931 subset and should not appear. The registration scheme, where needed, is expressed via the schemeID attribute on the payee's CompanyID (BT-61-1), not as a separate element.

Official rule text

A UBL invoice should not include the PayeeParty PartyLegalEntity CorporateRegistrationScheme

Common causes

Expressing the registry scheme as a child element instead of the schemeID attribute on cbc:CompanyID
Full UBL legal-entity structure serialized unfiltered

How do I fix it?

<cac:PartyLegalEntity>
  <cbc:CompanyID schemeID="0088">4035011000112</cbc:CompanyID>
</cac:PartyLegalEntity>

Check your invoice against this rule

Paste it into the live demo, or call POST /v1/validate. See the quickstart.