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BR-02

Core EN 16931 business rules · severity: error · in EN 16931 (UBL), EN 16931 (CII)

Official rule text

An Invoice shall have an Invoice number (BT-1).

What it means

The invoice number is missing.

Fields involved

How to fix it

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