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France EXTENDED-CTC-FR (UBL)

French e-invoice, EXTENDED-CTC-FR profile (UBL, XP Z12-012)

An invoice in the French EXTENDED-CTC-FR profile in UBL syntax, checked against the UBL 2.1 schema, the EXTENDED-CTC-FR rules and the French rules (BR-FR-*) published by FNFE-MPE.

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About

France's e-invoicing reform makes electronic invoices compulsory between French businesses: every company has had to be able to receive them since 1 September 2026, and large and mid-sized companies issue them from that date, through an approved platform (plateforme agréée). The formats are UBL, CII and Factur-X, under the AFNOR standard XP Z12-012.

EXTENDED-CTC-FR is the French extension of EN 16931 for invoices the standard cannot carry: multi-vendor invoices (several sellers on one invoice, as on marketplaces), invoice sub-lines and other added data. FNFE-MPE publishes its rules as a version of the EN 16931 rules that allows these additions; on top of them run the same French rules (BR-FR-*) as for the EN 16931 profile, in their "fatal" form, which applies from 1 October 2026.

E-invoicing in France: the rules in short and how to check an invoice →

Good to know

  • Rules run only when the document matches the schema. Documents over 50 MB are checked against the schema only.
  • The EXTENDED-CTC-FR rules replace the EN 16931 rules for this profile; FNFE-MPE derives them from EN 16931 release 1.3.16 and publishes them under the EUPL.
  • The example is use case 13 of the FNFE-MPE examples for XP Z12-012 (Apache License 2.0).

Files

14 files · 2.7 MB
  • maindoc/UBL-Invoice-2.1.xsd main
    58.8 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-CommonAggregateComponents-2.1.xsd
    2.3 MB View Download
  • common/UBL-CommonBasicComponents-2.1.xsd
    214.7 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-CommonExtensionComponents-2.1.xsd
    9.3 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-QualifiedDataTypes-2.1.xsd
    3.5 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-UnqualifiedDataTypes-2.1.xsd
    26.7 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-ExtensionContentDataType-2.1.xsd
    4.2 KB View Download
  • common/CCTS_CCT_SchemaModule-2.1.xsd
    44.2 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-CommonSignatureComponents-2.1.xsd
    5.4 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-SignatureAggregateComponents-2.1.xsd
    7.6 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-SignatureBasicComponents-2.1.xsd
    4.1 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-xmldsig-core-schema-2.1.xsd
    10.5 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-XAdESv132-2.1.xsd
    21.2 KB View Download
  • common/UBL-XAdESv141-2.1.xsd
    1.3 KB View Download

The validator loads all of these with their folder structure, so includes and imports resolve as published.

Business rules

Schematron · run in this order

The rules run after the schema check, only when the document matches the schema, and in your browser like the schema check (with SaxonJS by Saxonica). Each finding names its rule, such as BR-CO-15, and the line it points at; each rule has a page with what it checks.

Example document

fr-uc13-invoice-extended-ubl.xml · 23.3 KB · passes the schema and the rules

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In CI and from code

The same schema by its name, france-ctc-extended-ubl, through the API.

npx @xmlvalid/cli validate "**/*.xml" --schema france-ctc-extended-ubl
- uses: xmlvalid/validate-action@v1
  with:
    files: "**/*.xml"
    schema: france-ctc-extended-ubl
    api-key: ${{ secrets.XMLVALID_API_KEY }}
curl https://xmlvalid.com/api/v1/validations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $XMLVALID_API_KEY" \
  -F document={{ $schema->example ?? 'document.xml' }} -F schema=france-ctc-extended-ubl

Free accounts get 100 API validations a month. On Pro, a URL monitor can check a published document against this schema every hour and email you when it breaks. More CI setups