E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-COMMON-R047: An Italian Partita IVA should have 11 digits with a valid check digit

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An Italian Partita IVA should have 11 digits with a valid check digit.

What the rule says

Italian VAT Code (Partita Iva) must be stated in the correct format

Source of the quotation: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (OpenPEPPOL, peppol-bis-invoice-3)

Why the validator reports it

The rule belongs to Peppol BIS Billing 3.0. Our checker runs it only when the value of cbc:CustomizationID (BT-24) starts with urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:3.0.

Profile: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

How we rate it: warning

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID

How to fix it

Open the XML file and find the element cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID.
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A correct UBL 2.1 snippet

<cac:Party
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:EndpointID schemeID="0245">2120000001</cbc:EndpointID>
</cac:Party>

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