einvoice / EN 16931 / XRechnung rule reference
BR-CL-23
Unit code MUST be coded per UN/ECE Rec 20 with Rec 21 extension.
Der Einheiten-Code MUSS gemäß der UN/ECE-Empfehlung 20 mit der Erweiterung Rec 21 codiert werden.
Deutsche Fassung: Übersetzung der gleichen BT/BG-Semantik (translation — not the official assert).
- Requires
- Unit code MUST be coded according to the UN/ECE Recommendation 20 with Rec 21 extension
- Business terms
- — (no single business term)
- Syntax
- Binds the UBL-2.1 Invoice / CreditNote syntax and the UN/CEFACT-CII syntax
- Location (UBL-2.1 path)
cbc:InvoicedQuantity[@unitCode]- Fix
- Encode `cbc:InvoicedQuantity[@unitCode]` using a valid value from UN/ECE Recommendation 20 with Rec 21 extension.
- Fix (Deutsch)
- Codieren Sie `cbc:InvoicedQuantity[@unitCode]` mit einem gültigen Wert aus der geforderten Codeliste: Der Einheiten-Code MUSS gemäß der UN/ECE-Empfehlung 20 mit der Erweiterung Rec 21 codiert werden.
- Severity
- fatal
- Provenance source
en16931-ubl- Provenance assert
Unit code MUST be coded according to the UN/ECE Recommendation 20 with Rec 21 extension
The Location above is a UBL-2.1 path, and no UN/CEFACT-CII path for this rule is published here; Fix and Fix (Deutsch), verbatim from remediation_catalog.json and not reworded here; the UN/CEFACT-CII binding of this rule is differentially proven against the official CEN EN 16931 1.3.16 Schematron.
Everything here is free and open source — pick up whatever helps, at your own pace:
- Licensing — Apache-2.0 for everyone, including closed-source embedding; an optional $29 / $290 commercial license adds support and rule-corpus update notices.
- German remediation (
--lang de) — the German fix for this rule is in the section above; the CLI surfaces it in place of the English message with--lang de. - Quickstart / free on-ramp — the README, a copy-paste CI-gate recipe, and a 5-minute worked walkthrough.