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The UAE accredited service provider layer on the 5-corner Peppol model

Technical·27 February 2026·2 replies·12 likes·Last post 28 February 2026·Reply

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Omar F.27 February 2026
Three documents from the UAE MoF in one drop is more than we usually get, and the level of detail in the accredited service provider selection criteria is genuinely useful for vendors deciding whether to apply. The 5 corner Peppol model is well established at this point but the UAE specific ASP layer is the new architectural piece, and it has implications for how vendors are differentiating themselves on certification. The mandatory invoice fields document is the one I have spent most time with, there are a couple of fields (the trade licence reference being one) that will require ERP master data work for any business that has not been keeping that field tidy.
Ahmed S.28 February 2026
On the trade licence field, are we expecting the validation to be done at the ASP or at the central platform? My reading is ASP first, central as a final check, but the document is a bit ambiguous.
Victoria N.28 February 2026
ASP first, central confirms. The validation matrix in Annex B of the second guideline lists the ASP as primary for syntactic and basic business rule validation, the central platform handles uniqueness and registration cross check. So a malformed trade licence ref should be rejected at the ASP before it ever reaches the central layer. That said, the operational reality is that ASPs vary in how strict they are at the schema validation step, so some inconsistency in early go live is likely.

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