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BR-51

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Official rules text

[BR-51]-In accordance with card payments security standards an invoice should never include a full card primary account number (BT-87). At the moment PCI Security Standards Council has defined that the first 6 digits and last 4 digits are the maximum number of digits to be shown.

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Official rule sets up to date: EN 16931 1.3.17 · Peppol BIS 3.0.20 · XRechnung 3.0.2 (KoSIT 2.6.0). Last checked against the sources on 12.10.2026.