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Description:
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German Electronic Business Address (GEBA)
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Information:
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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).
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