BR-09

The seller postal address must contain a country code (BT-40) — the two-letter ISO 3166-1 code, not the country's name spelled out.

Severity: Error
Applies to: CII, UBL
Rule set: v2026-01-31

Official rule text

The Seller postal address (BG-5) shall contain a Seller country code (BT-40).

Why does BR-09 happen?

Addresses live in many systems as multi-line free text with the country on the last line. Splitting them into individual fields leaves exactly that line over, because it carries no code.

How do you fix BR-09?

Translate the country into its ISO code once and set it in BT-40: cac:PostalAddress/cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode in UBL, ram:PostalTradeAddress/ram:CountryID in CII. DE, not Germany.

In the XML

A UBL fragment. The CII path is named above — same change, different element names.

Fails

<cac:PostalAddress>
  <cbc:CityName>Berlin</cbc:CityName>
  <cbc:PostalZone>10115</cbc:PostalZone>
  <cac:Country>
    <cbc:IdentificationCode>Deutschland</cbc:IdentificationCode>
  </cac:Country>
</cac:PostalAddress>

Fixed

<cac:PostalAddress>
  <cbc:CityName>Berlin</cbc:CityName>
  <cbc:PostalZone>10115</cbc:PostalZone>
  <cac:Country>
    <cbc:IdentificationCode>DE</cbc:IdentificationCode>
  </cac:Country>
</cac:PostalAddress>

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