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Spotlight PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 The EU e-invoicing mandate is here — France Sept 2026, Belgium Jan 2026, Germany 2025.

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PEPPOL SBDH Validator

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Client-side validator for the SBDH (Standard Business Document Header) envelope. Checks sender / receiver ICDs, document type, PEPPOL BIS 3.0 process ID, RFC 3339 timestamps, payload presence — without sending a byte to a server.

Paste a SBDH envelope (StandardBusinessDocument) to validate the PEPPOL header.

How it works

SBDH (Standard Business Document Header) is the XML envelope normalised by ISO/IEC 9735, profiled by UN/CEFACT and refined by GS1 XML 3.0 to wrap a business document (UBL Invoice, UBL CreditNote, EDIFACT INVOIC…) for transport. On the OpenPEPPOL network, every document handed off between Access Points over AS4 is packed inside a <StandardBusinessDocument> carrying:

  • The ISO 6523 sender and receiver identifiers (e.g. 0192:991825827).
  • The exact payload nature (Standard URI, TypeVersion, local Type).
  • An instance GUID (InstanceIdentifier) for traceability.
  • The PEPPOL DOCUMENTID and PROCESSID BusinessScope.

Validator pipeline:

  1. XML parsing (DOMParser in browser, fast-xml-parser fallback).
  2. Lookup of the StandardBusinessDocument root.
  3. Extraction of each header block (Sender, Receiver, DocumentIdentification, BusinessScope).
  4. Application of the rules below.

Rules checked

  • Root element: StandardBusinessDocument (any prefix). The canonical namespace is http://www.unece.org/cefact/namespaces/StandardBusinessDocumentHeader — a different namespace raises a warning, not an error.
  • HeaderVersion: must be exactly 1.0 (SBDH 1.3 still uses the 1.0 header tag). Any other value, or absence, raises a blocking error.
  • Sender / Receiver: at least one of each, with a non-empty <Identifier>. The ICD scheme (the prefix before :) is checked against the ISO 6523 list below — an unknown ICD raises a warning.
  • DocumentIdentification: the five fields Standard, TypeVersion, InstanceIdentifier, Type, CreationDateAndTime are mandatory. CreationDateAndTime must be RFC 3339 (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ or with explicit offset).
  • BusinessScope: PEPPOL requires two <Scope> entries — one of type DOCUMENTID, one of type PROCESSID. A missing entry raises a warning. InstanceIdentifier values shaped as urn:peppol:bis:… are checked against the bundled list.
  • Loopback: when Sender and Receiver carry the exact same value, a warning is emitted (most often unintentional in integration).
  • Payload presence: a business element must follow the <StandardBusinessDocumentHeader>; a body-less StandardBusinessDocument raises a warning.

Supported ISO 6523 ICD schemes

The list below covers the ICDs actively used on the OpenPEPPOL network. The full OASIS registry contains ~250 codes — we bundle the 105 most-used ones for recognition and labelling.

ICD code Registry / country
0002 FR SIRENE — System Information et Repertoire des Entreprise et des Etablissements: SIRENE
0007 SE ORGNR — Organisationsnummer
0009 FR SIRET — SIRET-CODE
0037 FI OVT — LY-tunnus
0060 DUNS — Data Universal Numbering System (D-U-N-S Number)
0088 GS1 GLN
0096 DK P — The Danish Business Authority - P-number (DK:P)
0097 IT FTI — FTI - Ediforum Italia
0106 NL KVK — Vereniging van Kamers van Koophandel en Fabrieken in Nederland (Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands), Scheme
0130 EU NAL — Directorates of the European Commission
0135 IT SIA — SIA Object Identifiers
0142 IT SECETI — SECETI Object Identifiers
0151 AU ABN — Australian Business Number (ABN) Scheme
0158 SK ICO — Identification number of economic subject (ICO)
0183 CH UIDB — Swiss Unique Business Identification Number (UIDB)
0184 DK DIGST — The Danish Business Authority - CVR-number (DK:CVR)
0188 JP SST — Corporate Number of The Social Security and Tax Number System
0190 NL OINO — Organisatie-identificatienummer (OIN)
0191 EE CC — Company code
0192 NO ORG — Organisasjonsnummer (Enhetsregisteret)
0193 UBLBE — UBL.BE Party Identifier
0195 SG UEN — Singapore Nationwide E-Invoice Framework
0196 IS KTNR — Icelandic identifier
0198 DK ERST — The Danish Business Authority - SE-number (DK:SE)
0199 LEI — Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
0200 LT LEC — Legal entity code
0201 IT CUUO — Codice Univoco Unità Organizzativa iPA
0204 DE LWID — Peppol-Leitweg-ID
0205 IT COD — CODDEST
0208 BE EN — Numero d'entreprise / ondernemingsnummer / Unternehmensnummer
0209 GS1 — GS1 identification keys
0210 IT CFI — CODICE FISCALE
0211 IT IVA — PARTITA IVA
0212 FI ORG — Finnish Organization Identifier
0213 FI VAT — Finnish Organization Value Add Tax Identifier
0215 FI NSI — Net service ID
0216 FI OVT2 — OVTcode
0218 LV URN — Unified registration number
0221 JP IIN — The registered number of the qualified invoice issuer
0225 FR CTC — FRCTC Electronic Address
0230 MY EIF — National e-Invoicing Framework
0235 AE TIN — UAE Tax Identification Number (TIN)
0240 LU MAT — Register of legal persons
0242 SPIS — OpenPeppol Service Provider Identification Scheme
0244 NG TID — Tax Identification (Tax ID)
0245 SK DIC — Tax identification number (DIČ)
0246 DE GEBA — German Electronic Business Address
0248 OM VAT — Oman Value Added Tax Identification Number (VATIN)
9901 DK CPR — Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health
9902 DK CVR — The Danish Commerce and Companies Agency
9904 DK SE — Danish Ministry of Taxation, Central Customs and Tax Administration
9905 DK VANS — Danish VANS providers
9906 IT VAT — Ufficio responsabile gestione partite IVA
9907 IT CF — TAX Authority
9908 NO ORGNR — Enhetsregisteret ved Bronnoysundregisterne
9909 NO VAT — Norwegian VAT number
9910 HU VAT — Hungary VAT number
9912 EU VAT — National ministries of Economy
9913 EU REID — Business Registers Network
9914 AT VAT — Österreichische Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer
9915 AT GOV — Österreichisches Verwaltungs bzw. Organisationskennzeichen
9916 AT CID — Firmenidentifikationsnummer der Statistik Austria
9917 IS KT — Icelandic National Registry
9918 IBAN — SOCIETY FOR WORLDWIDE INTERBANK FINANCIAL, TELECOMMUNICATION S.W.I.F.T
9919 AT KUR — Kennziffer des Unternehmensregisters
9920 ES VAT — Agencia Española de Administración Tributaria
9921 IT IPA — Indice delle Pubbliche Amministrazioni
9922 AD VAT — Andorra VAT number
9923 AL VAT — Albania VAT number
9924 BA VAT — Bosnia and Herzegovina VAT number
9925 BE VAT — Belgium VAT number
9926 BG VAT — Bulgaria VAT number
9927 CH VAT — Switzerland VAT number
9928 CY VAT — Cyprus VAT number
9929 CZ VAT — Czech Republic VAT number
9930 DE VAT — Germany VAT number
9931 EE VAT — Estonia VAT number
9932 GB VAT — United Kingdom VAT number
9933 GR VAT — Greece VAT number
9934 HR VAT — Croatia VAT number
9935 IE VAT — Ireland VAT number
9936 LI VAT — Liechtenstein VAT number
9937 LT VAT — Lithuania VAT number
9938 LU VAT — Luxemburg VAT number
9939 LV VAT — Latvia VAT number
9940 MC VAT — Monaco VAT number
9941 ME VAT — Montenegro VAT number
9942 MK VAT — Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of VAT number
9943 MT VAT — Malta VAT number
9944 NL VAT — Netherlands VAT number
9945 PL VAT — Poland VAT number
9946 PT VAT — Portugal VAT number
9947 RO VAT — Romania VAT number
9948 RS VAT — Serbia VAT number
9949 SI VAT — Slovenia VAT number
9950 SK VAT — Slovakia VAT number
9951 SM VAT — San Marino VAT number
9952 TR VAT — Turkey VAT number
9953 VA VAT — Holy See (Vatican City State) VAT number
9954 NL OIN — Dutch Originator's Identification Number
9955 SE VAT — Swedish VAT number
9956 BE CBE — Belgian Crossroad Bank of Enterprise number
9957 FR VAT — French VAT number
9958 DE LID — Peppol-Leitweg-ID
9959 US EIN — US Employer ID Number

PEPPOL BIS 3.0 identifiers recognised

The validator recognises the common PEPPOL BIS 3.0 identifiers and attaches a label:

  • urn:peppol:bis:billing:3.0:invoice — Invoice.
  • urn:peppol:bis:billing:3.0:creditnote — CreditNote.
  • urn:peppol:bis:ordering:3.0:order — Order.
  • urn:peppol:bis:ordering:3.0:orderresponse — OrderResponse.
  • urn:peppol:bis:despatch:3.0:despatchadvice — DespatchAdvice.
  • urn:peppol:bis:catalogue:3.0:catalogue — Catalogue.
  • urn:peppol:bis:mlr:3.0:mlr — Message Level Response.

Process IDs:

  • urn:peppol:bis:billing:3.0 — Billing 3.0 process.
  • urn:peppol:bis:ordering:3.0 — Ordering 3.0 process.
  • urn:peppol:bis:despatch:3.0 — Despatch 3.0 process.

Limits

  • No full XSD validation of the envelope — only the rules above. The official StandardBusinessDocumentHeader.xsd is strict on a few secondary cardinalities we do not cover.
  • No validation of the wrapped payload. If the body is a UBL Invoice, run it through UBL 2.1 Validator or PEPPOL Validator downstream.
  • No signature or TLS chain verification — the envelope is examined in cleartext, outside the AS4 transport layer.

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