# BR-61

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

> If the Payment means type code (BT-81) means SEPA credit transfer, Local credit transfer or Non-SEPA international credit transfer, the Payment account identifier (BT-84) shall be present.

Source: https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/rules/ubl-tc434/BR-61/

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

If the Payment means type code (BT-81) means SEPA credit transfer, Local credit transfer or Non-SEPA international credit transfer, the Payment account identifier (BT-84) must be present. The message starts with "If" and says "shall be present". It capitalizes "Local credit transfer" and "Non-SEPA international credit transfer". It ends with a period. It does not say "shall be provided" or "shall specify". The context is the payment means. The published test checks that a payee financial account id exists when the payment means code is 30 or 58, and it passes when the code is neither. The code comparisons have spaces around = and !=. The test keeps a single space before the closing parenthesis after the 58 comparison. That single space is not a repeated space. The positive branch calls exists. The other branch does not. It is not a non-blank check.

## What to change

When the payment means type code is 30 or 58, send a payment account identifier (BT-84) as the payee financial account id.

## Illustration

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

**Fails the stated condition.** The payment means code is 30 or 58, and no payee financial account id exists.

**Passes the stated condition.** The payment means code is 30 or 58 and a payee financial account id exists, or the code is neither 30 nor 58.

## Published context and test

Copied from the source. Not reimplemented on this page.

```
cac:PaymentMeans
```

```
(exists(cac:PayeeFinancialAccount/cbc:ID) and ((normalize-space(cbc:PaymentMeansCode) = '30') or (normalize-space(cbc:PaymentMeansCode) = '58') )) or ((normalize-space(cbc:PaymentMeansCode) != '30') and (normalize-space(cbc:PaymentMeansCode) != '58'))
```

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