EN 16931 rules › BR-20
BR-20 — The Seller tax representative postal address (BG-12) shall contain a Tax representative country code (BT-69), if the…
| Rule id | BR-20 |
|---|---|
| Rule set | EN 16931 itself, not a national or network addition |
| Severity | fatal in CII and UBL — a validator enforcing this rule set rejects the invoice |
| Applies to | the CII and UBL syntaxes |
| Checked by | the validator on this site and invoicekit.go v0.2.11, the library behind it |
The rule as published
The Seller tax representative postal address (BG-12) shall contain a Tax representative country code (BT-69), if the Seller (BG-4) has a Seller tax representative party (BG-11).
fatal in CII and UBL — a validator enforcing this rule set rejects the invoice.
What runs for it
Straight from the artefacts the engine embeds: the node the assertion selects and the test it applies there. A failing invoice is reported with the message above.
| Syntax | Severity | Artefact phase | Applied to | Fails when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CII | fatal | EN16931-model-phase | //ram:SellerTaxRepresentativeTradeParty | normalize-space(ram:PostalTradeAddress/ram:CountryID) != '' |
| UBL | fatal | EN16931model_phase | cac:TaxRepresentativeParty/cac:PostalAddress | normalize-space(cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode) != '' |
Data elements it names
- BG-12 Seller tax representative postal address (cited by 2 rules)
- BT-69 Tax representative country code (cited by 1 rule)
- BG-4 Seller (cited by 4 rules)
- BG-11 Seller tax representative party (cited by 4 rules)
See also
- Every EN 16931 rule id — the same list as a filterable table, with the assertions as CSV and JSON.
- What XRechnung and Peppol BIS add — rule sets that run these ids plus their own.
- The data elements — every BT and BG with the rules that name it.