This section provides an overview of rules that receivers and/or senders of documents must fulfil to be compliant to a BIS. This is not a complete or normative listing of applicable rules.

A message is considered compliant to this BIS if no fatal errors are detected when validating with the current validation artefacts.

A message is also considered compliant to this BIS if only warnings (and no fatal errors) are detected when validating with the current validation artefacts.

Senders compliance to BIS

Processing of rules

  • A sender SHALL NOT send messages that are not compliant to the BIS.

Receivers compliance to BIS

Processing of rules

  • A receiver SHALL NOT reject receiving messages which are compliant to the BIS.

  • A receiver MAY reject receiving messages which are not compliant to the BIS.