Rule reference

PEPPOL-EN16931-CL008 The Seller electronic address (BT-34) uses the scheme identifier "EM", which is not in the Peppol Participant Identifier Scheme list

The Seller electronic address (BT-34) uses the scheme identifier "EM", which is not in the Peppol Participant Identifier Scheme list. This is the rule people are most surprised by, because "EM" may well be a perfectly valid CEF Electronic Address Scheme code and satisfy BR-CL-25: the CEN list is the *register* of address schemes, and this one is the subset an access point will actually resolve. A code in the first and not the second gives you a document that passes every validator you can run locally and is refused at the network edge. 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-34
Severity
fatal

What the library returns

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

TeachingError
{
  "rule": "PEPPOL-EN16931-CL008",
  "field": "BT-34",
  "severity": "fatal",
  "message": "The Seller electronic address (BT-34) uses the scheme identifier \"EM\", which is not in the Peppol Participant Identifier Scheme list. This is the rule people are most surprised by, because \"EM\" may well be a perfectly valid CEF Electronic Address Scheme code and satisfy BR-CL-25: the CEN list is the *register* of address schemes, and this one is the subset an access point will actually resolve. A code in the first and not the second gives you a document that passes every validator you can run locally and is refused at the network edge. 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": "Set seller.electronicAddress.schemeId to a code from the PEPPOL_EAS_SCHEME_CODES list this package exports — 0002, 0007, 0009, 0037, 0060, 0088 and 88 others. In practice the choice is made for you: it is whichever scheme your counterparty is registered under in the Peppol directory, so look them up rather than guessing.",
  "example": "\"electronicAddress\": { \"schemeId\": \"0088\", \"value\": \"7300010000001\" }",
  "xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/PEPPOL-EN16931-CL008"
}

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
"electronicAddress": { "schemeId": "0088", "value": "7300010000001" }

The fix

Set seller.electronicAddress.schemeId to a code from the PEPPOL_EAS_SCHEME_CODES list this package exports — 0002, 0007, 0009, 0037, 0060, 0088 and 88 others. In practice the choice is made for you: it is whichever scheme your counterparty is registered under in the Peppol directory, so look them up rather than guessing.

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