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Warning

CII-SR-092: Remove the region from the origin details

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Warning: worth checking.

CII-SR-092 warns that the country-of-origin details on your CII invoice contain ram:SubordinateTradeCountrySubDivision. Remove this regional or subdivision block, while keeping the country-of-origin identifier (BT-159) if you include origin information.

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What it means

For each invoice line (BG-25), the rule checks that ram:OriginTradeCountry/ram:SubordinateTradeCountrySubDivision is absent from ram:SpecifiedTradeProduct.

Why it matters

The EN 16931 CII mapping records the country of origin (BT-159), but does not use this separate block for a region or other subdivision.

How to fix it

Remove ram:SubordinateTradeCountrySubDivision from the line's ram:OriginTradeCountry. If you retain origin information, keep exactly one ram:ID across the origin elements, as required by CII-SR-090. If you need to include the region, put it in the item description (BT-154). Export the corrected file and check it again.

Once the file is corrected, check it again for free: Validate an invoice against EN 16931

Or fix the invoice in a form and download the corrected file, for 1 credit: Fix a rejected e-invoice

The rule as published

SubordinateTradeCountrySubDivision should not be present

Where this rule applies

Rule set Version
EN 16931 (CII) 1.3.17
XRechnung 3.0 (CII) 3.0.2
NLCIUS (CII) 1.0.3.13
France CTC (CII) 1.4.0-04
Rule text from phive-rules 4.6.4.

Check your file

Drop your e-invoice to see whether CII-SR-092 still fails, and which other rules do.

Updated 6 November 2026