The Business Identifier Code (BIC) may still be required until 1 February 2014 for domestic payments and 1 February 2016 for cross-border payments. Member States may defer the requirement relating to the provision of the BIC for national payment transactions until 1 February 2016.
This is expressed differently in different bank's specifications. One bank says: the BIC field is ignored, don't use it. Another bank says: the field is optional. You should use it if the bank cannot determine the BIC by itself.
I know it's not that well specified, but it seems to me that there is even less need for the bank to know the BIC of their own customers. Then again, it seems just good practice if the company BIC were stored properly in OpenERP (I think it is printed by default in the standard report footer). Maybe this is something that can be implemented as a contraint in the not_required module.
Basic facts:
The Business Identifier Code (BIC) may still be required until 1 February 2014 for domestic payments and 1 February 2016 for cross-border payments. Member States may defer the requirement relating to the provision of the BIC for national payment transactions until 1 February 2016.
http:// www.ecb. europa. eu/paym/ sepa/about/ migration/ html/index. en.html
This is expressed differently in different bank's specifications. One bank says: the BIC field is ignored, don't use it. Another bank says: the field is optional. You should use it if the bank cannot determine the BIC by itself.
I know it's not that well specified, but it seems to me that there is even less need for the bank to know the BIC of their own customers. Then again, it seems just good practice if the company BIC were stored properly in OpenERP (I think it is printed by default in the standard report footer). Maybe this is something that can be implemented as a contraint in the not_required module.