`PEPPOL-EN16931-R008`

Peppol BIS Billing 3 · validation rule

Peppol BIS Billing 3Error

The document contains empty elements (no text and no children), e.g. <cbc:Note/> or <cac:Delivery/>. Peppol and XRechnung reject them; the sender must remove every empty element instead of emitting placeholders.

Field: (empty XML element)
Rule set: Peppol BIS Billing 3
Rule-set version: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (rules master, Sep 2026) · in force since 2026-09-07 · Rule-set changelog
Who has to fix it: The sender

This is a property of the file you received, so it cannot be corrected on your side without changing the document — ask the supplier to reissue it.

Check your own invoice

Drop the file that failed. We parse it, run the official rule sets against it and list every finding with a fix — 20 invoices per day, no key, nothing stored.

Open the live demo

Same explanation over the API: GET /v1/rules/PEPPOL-EN16931-R008?lang=en