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    BR-DEX-07: electronic address scheme not from the EAS list

    ErrorXRechnung business rule (KoSIT)

    The rule's own wording

    [BR-DEX-07] Any scheme identifier for an Endpoint Identifier in MUST belong to the CEF EAS code list.

    Source: KoSIT XRechnung, version 3.0.2 (Schematron 2.6.0)

    The fix in the XML

    Set in the schemeID attribute of cbc:EndpointID a code of the EAS list: EM for e-mail, 0204 for the Leitweg-ID, 9930 for a German VAT identifier, 0088 for a GLN. In CII the same applies to ram:URIID of the URIUniversalCommunication.

    Before – invalid
    <cbc:EndpointID schemeID="Email">[email protected]</cbc:EndpointID>
    After – corrected
    <cbc:EndpointID schemeID="EM">[email protected]</cbc:EndpointID>

    Meaning of the rule

    The electronic address of the seller or the buyer in your invoice, the address for exchange over a network such as Peppol, carries a scheme the extension does not know. The scheme must be a code of the EAS list, which the EU maintains for electronic addresses, for example EM for an e-mail address, 9930 for a German VAT identifier or 0204 for a Leitweg-ID. A text such as Peppol or Email as the scheme is rejected.

    What usually goes wrong

    • A descriptive name such as Email was entered instead of the EAS code.
    • An ISO 6523 code was used where the EAS list provides another code.
    • The software fills the scheme with a fixed placeholder.

    Questions and answers

    How do the EAS list and ISO 6523 differ?

    ISO 6523 names identifier systems for organisations; the EAS list names addressing schemes for electronic exchange and contains ISO codes plus its own such as EM.

    Which code applies to the Leitweg-ID as an electronic address?

    0204 stands for the Leitweg-ID in the EAS list. German public bodies are reachable in the Peppol network through it; the identifier goes into cbc:EndpointID with schemeID 0204.

    EN 16931 fields

    • BT-34
    • BT-49

    See also

    • PEPPOL-EN16931-R010
    • PEPPOL-EN16931-R020
    • BR-CL-25

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    The rule in detail
    UBL · Context (XPath)
    cbc:EndpointID[@schemeID and $isExtension]
    UBL · Schematron test
    ((not(contains(normalize-space(@schemeID), ' ')) and contains($CEF-EAS-EXT-CODES, concat(' ', normalize-space(@schemeID), ' '))))
    CII · Context (XPath)
    ram:URIUniversalCommunication/ram:URIID[@schemeID and $isExtension]
    CII · Schematron test
    ((not(contains(normalize-space(@schemeID), ' ')) and contains($CEF-EAS-EXT-CODES, concat(' ', normalize-space(@schemeID), ' '))))

    Explanation written on 14 September 2026