# XRechnung 3.0 Credit Note (UBL)

Source: https://xmlvalid.com/schemas/xrechnung-3-ubl-credit-note

> A German XRechnung credit note in UBL syntax, checked against the UBL 2.1 CreditNote schema, the EN 16931 rules and the XRechnung rules (BR-DE-\*).

The credit note of XRechnung, the German CIUS of EN 16931: UBL's CreditNote document with type code 381, checked with the same rule layers as the XRechnung invoice. In CII, a credit note is a CrossIndustryInvoice with that type code, so the XRechnung CII entry covers both.

- Type: XSD + Schematron
- Version: 3.0.2, rules 2.6.0
- Namespace: `urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CreditNote-2`
- Root element: `CreditNote`
- Publisher: KoSIT (OASIS copyright notice), source: https://xeinkauf.de/xrechnung/
- Rules: [EN 16931 rules 1.3.16 (UBL)](https://xmlvalid.com/rules/sets/en16931-ubl-1.3.16)
- Rules: [XRechnung 3.0 rules (UBL) 2.6.0](https://xmlvalid.com/rules/sets/xrechnung-3-ubl)
- Validate against it: https://xmlvalid.com/validate?schema=xrechnung-3-ubl-credit-note

## Notes

- Rules run only when the document matches the schema. Documents over 50 MB are checked against the schema only.
- Rule levels follow the KoSIT validator configuration (2026-08-31) for the credit note scenarios (XRechnung and CVD): a few code list rules are warnings there. Its "information" level is shown as a warning.
- The XRechnung test suite has no UBL credit note, so the example is its invoice 01.02a (KoSIT, Apache License 2.0) turned into a credit note by us; the KoSIT validator accepts it.