---
oid: "1.3.246"
asn1-notation: "{iso(1) identified-organization(3) 246}"
description: "German Electronic Business Address (GEBA)"
last-modified: "2026-05-26"
tags: [oid-repository]
---

## OID: `1.3.246` (last updated: 2026-05-26)

```asn1
{iso(1) identified-organization(3) 246}
```

### Description

German Electronic Business Address (GEBA)

**Classification**: Identification scheme

### Supplementary information

Intended purpose/Application area: Electronic address for German economic operators as participants in electronic business document exchange 
 
Structure of code: The identifier must follow the following regular expression in a case-insensitive way: 
`DE[0-9]{9}(-[0-9]{5})?(\.[0-9A-Z]{1,8})?` 
The identifier consists of one to three parts: 

- The mandatory business identification number (W-IdNr): "`DE`" followed by 9 digits;
- The optional "distinctive feature" (in German, "Unterscheidungsmerkmal") separated by a hyphen and followed by 5 digits;
- The optional "sub-address" suffix separated by a full 
stop, followed by 1 to 8 characters;
- The 9th digit of the business identification number (W-IdNr) is a 
check digit covering the preceding 8 digits.
 
 
Organizations covered by system : All German economic operators in possession of a business identification number (W-IdNr).

### Registrant

Name: Beate Schulte
Address: Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Standards (KoSIT) 
Der Senator für Finanzen 
Rudolf-Hilferding-Platz 1 
28195 Bremen 
Germany
Email: kosit@finanzen.bremen.de;peppol@finanzen.bremen.de
Assignment date: 2025-12-12

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