# BR-17

Quoted from a public specification. This page is not a validator, and it is not tax, legal, or accounting advice.

- Country: EU
- Syntax: UBL
- Severity: fatal
- Statement language: en
- Last verified: 2026-10-18

## Official statement

> The Payee name (BT-59) shall be provided in the Invoice, if the Payee (BG-10) is different from the Seller (BG-4)

Source: https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/rules/ubl-tc434/BR-17/

Peppol BIS Billing 3.0, May 2026 release, EN 16931 model bound to UBL

Severity note: fatal, from the Flag column of the Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 UBL rules index retrieved 2026-10-18.

## Plain-language reading

The payee name (BT-59) must be provided in the invoice if the payee (BG-10) is different from the seller (BG-4). The official message has no trailing period. The published test requires a payee party name, and it requires that name and the payee party identifier to differ from the seller. The test keeps a single space before the closing parenthesis.

## What to change

Provide a payee name (BT-59) that differs from the seller name, and a payee party identifier that differs from the seller party identifier.

## Illustration

Illustration of the condition in the official statement. Not an example published by the source.

**Fails the stated condition.** The payee party has no name, or the payee name matches the seller, or the payee party identifier matches the seller.

**Passes the stated condition.** The payee party has a name, that name differs from the seller, and the payee party identifier differs from the seller.

## Published context and test

Copied from the source. Not reimplemented on this page.

```
cac:PayeeParty
```

```
exists(cac:PartyName/cbc:Name) and (not(cac:PartyName/cbc:Name = ../cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name) and not(cac:PartyIdentification/cbc:ID = ../cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyIdentification/cbc:ID) )
```

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