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NL-R-001

Dutch Peppol rules (NL-R) · severity: error · in Peppol BIS 3.0

Official rule text

For suppliers in the Netherlands, if the document is a creditnote, the document MUST contain an invoice reference (cac:BillingReference/cac:InvoiceDocumentReference/cbc:ID)

What it means

A credit note from a Dutch seller must refer to the invoice it corrects (BillingReference / InvoiceDocumentReference / ID).

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NL-R-002NL-R-003NL-R-004NL-R-005NL-R-006NL-R-007NL-R-008NL-R-009

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