CEN/TC 434 - EN-16931 - Validation artefacts

Official Schematron eInvoicing-EN16931 artefacts for CEN/TC 434.
This repository does not contain eInvoicing-EN16931 rules for any CIUS.

Latest release

• UBL & CII: v1.3.16 (2026-04-10) - https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/releases/tag/validation-1.3.16
• EDIFACT: v1.0.0 (2018-02-08) - https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/releases/tag/validation-1.0.0

For each syntax a separate folder exists where all related artefacts are to be published.

• ubl - UBL 2.1 (ISO/IEC 19845:2015) - EN mandatory syntax
  • UBL Website: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/
  • Used XML Schemas: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.zip
• cii - Cross Industry Invoice (D16B) - EN mandatory syntax
  • XML Schemas overview: http://www.unece.org/cefact/xml_schemas/index.html
  • Used XML Schemas: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/xml_schemas/D16B_SCRDM__Subset__CII.zip
• edifact - UN/EDIFACT (and ISO 26025 based XML version) - EN optional syntax

Digital Europe supported code lists are available here:

• https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/DIGITAL/Registry+of+supporting+artefacts+to+implement+EN16931

License

Licensed under European Union Public Licence (EUPL) version 1.2.

Derivative work created from https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/releases/tag/validation-1.2.3

That was Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

News and noteworthy

• v1.3.16 - 2026-04-10 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20milestone%3A%221.3.16%20(May-26)%22
• v1.3.15 - 2025-10-20 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20milestone%3A%221.3.15%20(Nov-25)%22
• v1.3.14.2 - 2025-06-15 (UBL and CII only)
  • This refers to #437
• v1.3.14.1 - 2025-04-16 (UBL and CII only)
  • This refers to #396 and #423
• v1.3.14 - 2025-04-11 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20milestone%3A%221.3.14%20(May-25)%22
• v1.3.13 - 2024-10-08 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20milestone%3A%221.3.13%20(Nov-24)%22
• v1.3.12 - 2024-04-10 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20milestone%3A%221.3.12%20(May-24)%22
• v1.3.11 - 2023-10-04 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A1.3.11
• v1.3.10 - 2023-04-11 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A1.3.10
• v1.3.9 - 2022-10-10 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A1.3.9
  • Updated code lists and minor fixes
• v1.3.8 - 2022-04-08 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.8
  • Update code lists, improves CII validations and minor fixes
• v1.3.7 - 2021-10-04 (UBL and CII only)
  • Merged requirements from XRechnung
  • Fix syntax issues
• v1.3.6a - 2021-08-03 (UBL and CII only - KoSIT specific fix)
  • This contains a fix for BR-CO-15 as required by XRechnung 2.1.1 - when https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/pull/292 is merged, the next XRechnung release can be again based on the official rule release. No further hot fixes are assumed.
• v1.3.6 - 2021-05-31 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.6
  • Hot fix to support country codes 1A - Kosovo and XI - United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) in rule BR-CO-09
• v1.3.5 - 2021-03-29 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.5
  • Changes in the code lists and fixing CII errors.
• v1.3.4 - 2021-01-27 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.4
  • Hot fix of error introduced in 1.3.3
• v1.3.3 - 2020-10-02 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.3
• v1.3.2 - 2020-05-25 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.2
  • Added code 0208 in EAS and 0205 to 0208 in ICD code lists
• v1.3.1 - 2020-02-28 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.1
  • Some codelist values have been added
• v1.3.0 - 2019-10-05 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.3.0
  • Some codelist values have been added
• v1.2.3 - 2019-07-05 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.2.3
  • Some codelist values were missing
• v1.2.2 - 2019-07-05 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.2.2
• v1.2.1 - 2019-05-14 (UBL and CII only)
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.2.1
• v1.2.0 - 2019-04-26 (UBL and CII only)
  • Note: this release does NOT contain the EDIFACT eInvoicing-EN16931 rules - its development is currently paused/stalled
  • Note: this release is not backwards compatible, and the examples files were changed as well.
  • See all fixed issues: https://github.com/ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av1.2
  • The UBL ODS files were removed, because they were out of sync with the used rules
  • The folder names for examples files were unified across the syntaxes
  • The name of the UBL Schematron/XSLT files was changed from EN16931-UBL-model.* to EN16931-UBL-eInvoicing-EN16931.*
• v1.1.0 - 2018-06-26 (UBL and CII only)
  • Note: this release does NOT contain the EDIFACT eInvoicing-EN16931 rules - its development is currently paused/stalled
  • New participant identifier schemes are supported
    • 0184 in issue #64
    • 0190 in issue #70
    • 0191 in issue #58
    • 0192 in issue #62
    • 0193 in issue #71
  • Rules targeting attributes were altered (issue #50)
  • Fixed typo in BR-CL-24 UBL (issue #52)
  • Some code list assertions had no id attributes (issue #53)
  • Rule CII-SR-029 was removed and the context of CII-SR-030 was adopted (issue #54)
  • Using xs:decimal instead of xs:double (issue #55)
  • The value of the VAT @schemeID attribute is VAT (instead of VA) (issue #57)
  • Error in rule BR-Z-10 UBL was fixed (issue #59)
  • Fixed error message of BR-AF-05 CII (issue #60)
  • The value 532 was not supported in BR-CL-01 (issue #63)
• v1.0.0 - 2018-02-08 (UBL, CII and EDIFACT)
  • Initial release