`PROFILE-NOT-HR`

Seller and buyer are in Croatia (BT-40 and BT-55 = HR), but the invoice does not use the Croatian specification HR-CIUS 2025 (BT-24 urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#urn:mfin.gov.hr:cius-2025:1.0#conformant#urn:mfin.gov.hr:ext-2025:1.0). Domestic B2B invoices in Croatia must follow HR-CIUS (UBL 2.1); Croatian access points will reject this one. Use the format hr-cius.

Official rule text

Seller and buyer are in Croatia (BT-40 and BT-55 = HR), but the invoice does not use the Croatian specification HR-CIUS 2025 (BT-24 urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#urn:mfin.gov.hr:cius-2025:1.0#conformant#urn:mfin.gov.hr:ext-2025:1.0). Domestic B2B invoices in Croatia must follow HR-CIUS (UBL 2.1); Croatian access points will reject this one. Use the format hr-cius.

Where the rule applies

Rule set	Document type	Severity
HR-CIUS (eRačun) (1.0.4) Croatian Tax Administration	Croatian seller and buyer without HR-CIUS (UBL Invoice), Croatian seller and buyer without HR-CIUS (UBL CreditNote), Croatian seller and buyer without HR-CIUS (CII)	warning

Fatal and error findings make the invoice invalid (valid: false); warnings and information do not.

Business terms concerned (EN 16931)

BT-24
BT-40
BT-55

Technical check

Syntax: UBL · HR-CIUS (eRačun) (1.0.4)
Context: /

Syntax: CII · HR-CIUS (eRačun) (1.0.4)
Context: /

How the API reports this rule

Every finding of POST /v1/validate carries the rule id, severity, message, location (XPath) and rule set, and links this page (docUrl):

{
  "severity": "warning",
  "ruleId": "PROFILE-NOT-HR",
  "message": "Seller and buyer are in Croatia (BT-40 and BT-55 = HR), but the invoice does not use the Croatian specification HR-CIUS 2025 (BT-24 urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#urn:mfin.gov.hr:cius-2025:1.0#conformant#urn:mfin.gov.hr:ext-2025:1.0). Domestic B2B invoices in Croatia must follow HR-CIUS (UBL 2.1); Croatian access points will reject this one. Use the format hr-cius.",
  "xpath": "/…",
  "source": "schematron:hr-cius@1.0.4",
  "docUrl": "https://einvoice-api.eu/rules/profile-not-hr.html"
}

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Rule text and severity are taken unchanged from the official rule set; this page is generated from the API's configuration. Not legal advice.