Engine Classification
Financial or legal field · Modification blocked by policy
Reason: Romanian e-invoices must use CIUS-RO (Core Invoice Usage Specification - Romania) profile. This requires the correct CustomizationID and compliance with Romanian-specific business rules. Configure your invoicing software to generate CIUS-RO compliant invoices for Romanian e-Factura submission.
What is RO-R-003?
RO-R-003 is a fatal validation rule defined in the cius-ro specification (ROU national rules). It validates the CustomizationID element under Invoice in the UBL invoice XML.
When this rule fires, the invoice is rejected by Peppol access points and never reaches the buyer.
Target path: XPath: /Invoice/cbc:CustomizationID
Why This Error Matters
Romanian Core Invoice Usage Specification.
RO-R-003 is a hard failure — the invoice must be corrected and re-sent before it can reach the recipient.
Validator Behavior
- ·Causes invoice rejection
- ·Error returned: RO-R-003
- ·Specification: cius-ro
How to Fix It
Set profile
CIUS-RO customization ID
Validate
Against CIUS-RO schema
XML Example
Generic example based on the rule's target XPath. Your actual XML structure may differ.
<!-- Missing or empty element triggers cbc:CustomizationID error --> <cbc:CustomizationID></cbc:CustomizationID>
<!-- Provide the required value --> <cbc:CustomizationID>VALID_VALUE</cbc:CustomizationID>
Technical Reference
XPath: /Invoice/cbc:CustomizationIDCommon Causes
- ·Wrong CustomizationID
- ·Not CIUS-RO compliant
Seeing this in production? The API handles RO-R-003 automatically. See the fix response →
Frequently Asked Questions
Romanian e-invoices must use CIUS-RO profile.
Set CustomizationID to CIUS-RO identifier. This error involves a protected field — Invoice Navigator flags it in your pipeline so your team can correct it at the source.
Yes, RO-R-003 is a critical error that must be fixed.
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