Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule

UBL-CR-378

Layer en16931·Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does UBL-CR-378 mean? A UBL invoice should not include the Delivery DeliveryLocation Address Country Name

Why did my invoice fail UBL-CR-378?

The UBL element cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryLocation/cac:Address/cac:Country/cbc:Name should not be used in an EN 16931 invoice. The deliver-to country is expressed only as a code (cbc:IdentificationCode, BT-80); a textual country name is redundant and outside the core model.

Official rule text

A UBL invoice should not include the Delivery DeliveryLocation Address Country Name

Common causes

Mapping both the country code and the country name from the source record
Templates that print the human-readable country name into the XML as well as the PDF
Assuming Name is required alongside IdentificationCode

How do I fix it?

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

Check your invoice against this rule

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