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SEPA Credit Transfer Reason Codes

43 codes that cover most of what an originator sees. Each one carries the decision: retry or stop, how long the receiving institution has to send it, what the guidance rests on, and when it was last checked.

What the tier labels mean, and how far this page has been checked
Draft
An agent wrote it from published material and nobody has checked it. Use it as a lead to confirm, never on its own as the basis for a retry, a return, a deadline or a compliance decision.
Corroborated
A validator found the same answer in one or more named public sources; the class in brackets says how strong they are. "Secondary sources only" means bank, processor or industry guides and nothing from the operator or regulator. Corroborated does not mean checked against the governing rulebook, so confirm before you act.
Verified
A person checked it against European Payments Council's own current text and recorded the edition and date. The strongest tier here, and still reference material, not legal or compliance advice.

On a rail fact, every detail line names the section or instrument it rests on and whether that is a rule, a law, operator guidance, or observed practice.

Known gaps in this build

Not yet covered: the ISO message identifiers for this scheme sit in EPC115-06 and EPC132-08, the Inter-PSP and Customer-to-PSP Implementation Guidelines, which have not been read; the messages fact asserts none of them; which ISO 20022 message versions the 2025 Implementation Guidelines pin is not established; EPC409-09, the list of SEPA scheme countries and territories, has not been read, so no country list and no count is asserted; the SCT list of Participants has not been read, so no participant count is asserted; the T2 closing days are named by the rulebook but not listed; no Eurosystem calendar has been read; CSM behaviour is outside the rulebook and the detailed operational rules of STEP2 and the national CSMs are participant-only, so settlement timing, interoperability and whether the final leg is in central bank money are unanswered; Directive 98/26/EC was not read, so settlement finality as a matter of insolvency law is unconfirmed; national transposition of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 was not checked, and consumer positions can differ by Member State; the date each Return, Recall and Request for Recall provision first took effect is unknown; only the 2025 v1.1 edition was read; the 2027 rulebook is due for publication in November 2026 and would take effect in November 2027; the change requests in EPC008-26 are proposals only.