# BR-57

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

> Each Deliver to address (BG-15) shall contain a Deliver to country code (BT-80).

Source: https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/rules/ubl-tc434/BR-57/

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

Each Deliver to address (BG-15) must contain a Deliver to country code (BT-80). The message says "shall contain", not "shall contain the". It starts with "Each" and ends with a period. The context is the delivery location address. The published test checks that a country identification code exists. It does not check that the code is non-blank.

## What to change

On each deliver-to address, send a deliver-to country code (BT-80) as the country identification code.

## Illustration

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

**Fails the stated condition.** A delivery location address has no country identification code.

**Passes the stated condition.** That address has a country identification code.

## Published context and test

Copied from the source. Not reimplemented on this page.

```
cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryLocation/cac:Address
```

```
exists(cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode)
```

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