What does PEPPOL-EN16931-CL001 mean?

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E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-EN16931-CL001: Peppol accepts application/pdf, image/png

Peppol accepts application/pdf, image/png, image/jpeg, text/csv, xlsx and ods.

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Original wording of the rule

Mime code must be according to subset of IANA code list.

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

How to fix it

Open the XML file and find the element cac:Attachment/cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject.
Add or correct the element the way the wording of the rule above asks for.
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A correct UBL 2.1 snippet

<cac:Attachment
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject>text</cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject>
</cac:Attachment>

The snippet is only the part of the document the rule is about. Put it in the right place inside your invoice; the namespaces are written here only so that the snippet reads on its own.

When it is reported

Profile: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

How we rate it: error

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:AdditionalDocumentReference[1]/cac:Attachment/cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject

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PEPPOL-EN16931-CL007 The currencyID attribute of cbc:Amount has to be an ISO 4217 currency
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