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cac:ContractingParty

The contracting authority or contracting entity who is buying supplies, services or public works using a tendering procedure as described in the applicable directive (Directives 2014/24/EU, 2014/25/EU).

Cardinality
1..1
Namespace
cac urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2
Child elements
Card Name Description
1..1 cac:Party

Party information
Rules
Identifier/Error message Flag
EHF-ESPD-RES-B03501
Element 'cac:Party' MUST be provided.		 fatal
EHF-ESPD-RES-B03502
Document MUST NOT contain elements not part of the data model.		 fatal
Description

Unresolved directive in <stdin> - include::docs/espd-1.1/settings.adoc[]

Contracting body

The contracting body must be identified, hence information about the party is required, such as party name, identification, endpoint id, and country.

Example of contracting body
<cac:ContractingParty>
    <cac:Party>
        <cbc:EndpointID schemeID="NO:ORGNR">991825827</cbc:EndpointID>
        <cac:PartyIdentification>
            <cbc:ID schemeID="NO:ORGNR">991825827</cbc:ID>
        </cac:PartyIdentification>
        <cac:PartyName>
            <cbc:Name>Name of CO</cbc:Name>
        </cac:PartyName>
        <cac:PostalAddress>
            <cac:Country>
                <cbc:IdentificationCode listID="CountryCodeIdentifier" listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listName="CountryCodeIdentifier" listVersionID="1.0.2">NO</cbc:IdentificationCode>
            </cac:Country>
        </cac:PostalAddress>
    </cac:Party>
</cac:ContractingParty>