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3. ubl:Invoice
4. cac:InvoiceLine
5. cac:Price
6. cbc:BaseQuantity

The number of item units to which the price applies.

Cardinality

0..1

Namespace

cbc urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2

Data type

Quantity

Example value

1

Business terms

BT-149

Attributes

Use	Name	Description
O	@unitCode	Item price base quantity unit of measure code The unit of measure that applies to the Item price base quantity, must be the same as the unit code of the Invoiced/credited quantity. Codes for unit of packaging from UNECE Recommendation No. 21 can be used in accordance with the descriptions in the "Intro" section of UN/ECE Recommendation 20, Revision 11 (2015): The 2 character alphanumeric code values in UNECE Recommendation 21 shall be used. To avoid duplication with existing code values in UNECE Recommendation No. 20, each code value from UNECE Recommendation 21 shall be prefixed with an “X”, resulting in a 3 alphanumeric code when used as a unit of measure. Example value: C62

Rules

Identifier/Error message	Flag
PEPPOL-EN16931-R121 Base quantity MUST be a positive number above zero.	fatal
BR-CL-23 Unit code MUST be coded according to the UN/ECE Recommendation 20 with Rec 21 extension	fatal