What is the Clean Vehicle Directive?

EU Directive 2019/1161 promotes clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles in public procurement.

CVD applies to procurement of vehicles by public authorities and certain operators under public service contracts.

Error codes · XRechnung · Germany

BR-DE-CVD-01Fixable here

CVD document type must be specified for vehicle procurement

This is the rejection, word for word: „[BR-DE-CVD-01] For invoices involving vehicle procurement under the Clean Vehicle Directive (EU 2019/1161), the document type must indicate CVD applicability. This is required for German public procurement compliance.“

The Clean Vehicle Directive applies to public procurement of road transport vehicles. Invoices must indicate CVD applicability through proper document type specification in the XRechnung CVD extension.

What to have readyCOVID Scheme Identifier

What we doThis requires user input to resolve. Provide the correct value for `cac:AdditionalItemProperty` (BG-32).

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Before

<cac:Item>
  <!-- cac:AdditionalItemProperty is missing -->
</cac:Item>

After

<cac:Item>
  <cac:AdditionalItemProperty>valid-value</cac:AdditionalItemProperty>
</cac:Item>

What the finding looks likeExample

FindingValue missing · BR-DE-CVD-01

From youCOVID Scheme Identifier

ThenPassed

ProofSHA-256 and /verify link after the check

Often appears together with

BR-DE-01Invalid Leitweg-ID Format BR-DE-02Payment terms text recommended BR-DE-1Eine Rechnung (INVOICE) muss Angaben zu "PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS" (BG-16)...