A code that identifies the country. The lists of valid countries are registered with the ISO 3166-1 Maintenance agency, "Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions". Codes must be according to the alpha-2 representation.

Namespace
cbc urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2
Data type
udt:CodeType
Example value
GB
Code lists
Country codes (ISO 3166-1:Alpha2)
Rules
Identifier/Error message Flag
PEPPOL-T123-B10201
Value MUST be part of code list 'Country codes (ISO 3166-1:Alpha2)'.
fatal