Rule reference

PEPPOL-COMMON-R045 The Seller identifier (BT-29) is "123" under scheme "0210", which identifies the Italian Codice Fiscale

The Seller identifier (BT-29) is "123" under scheme "0210", which identifies the Italian Codice Fiscale. A value in that scheme must be either eleven digits (an organisation), or the sixteen-character personal layout: six letters, two digits, a letter, two digits, three characters, a digit and a letter, and this one is not. The Codice Fiscale is issued in two shapes — the eleven-digit form for organisations and the sixteen-character encoded form for individuals — and mixing them up usually means an individual's code was entered for a company or vice versa. Peppol flags this one as a warning rather than a rejection, so the document will be delivered — but a wrong identifier is delivered to the wrong place, or to nowhere. This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile rule: it applies because profile is "peppol-bis-3". It does not apply to the en16931, xrechnung-ubl or xrechnung-cii profiles, whose validators will accept the same document.

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Business term
BT-29
Severity
warning

What the library returns

The exact object in result.errors when this rule fires. Generated by running @attestwire/en16931, not transcribed:

TeachingError
{
  "rule": "PEPPOL-COMMON-R045",
  "field": "BT-29",
  "severity": "warning",
  "message": "The Seller identifier (BT-29) is \"123\" under scheme \"0210\", which identifies the Italian Codice Fiscale. A value in that scheme must be either eleven digits (an organisation), or the sixteen-character personal layout: six letters, two digits, a letter, two digits, three characters, a digit and a letter, and this one is not. The Codice Fiscale is issued in two shapes — the eleven-digit form for organisations and the sixteen-character encoded form for individuals — and mixing them up usually means an individual's code was entered for a company or vice versa. Peppol flags this one as a warning rather than a rejection, so the document will be delivered — but a wrong identifier is delivered to the wrong place, or to nowhere. This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile rule: it applies because profile is \"peppol-bis-3\". It does not apply to the en16931, xrechnung-ubl or xrechnung-cii profiles, whose validators will accept the same document.",
  "fix": "Correct seller.identifier, or change its scheme identifier if the value belongs to a different register. A check digit failing almost always means one digit was transposed or dropped in transcription — compare it against the source register rather than re-typing it.",
  "example": "\"identifier\": { \"schemeId\": \"0210\", \"value\": \"01234567890\" }",
  "xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyIdentification/cbc:ID",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/PEPPOL-COMMON-R045"
}

xpath locates the element in the generated UBL document, which is where a KoSIT or Peppol validator will report the same problem.

A passing value

the shape this field expects
"identifier": { "schemeId": "0210", "value": "01234567890" }

The fix

Correct seller.identifier, or change its scheme identifier if the value belongs to a different register. A check digit failing almost always means one digit was transposed or dropped in transcription — compare it against the source register rather than re-typing it.

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