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SEPA Direct Debit Core Reason Codes

24 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: Annexes I, II, III and VI of EPC016-06 were not read: the Adherence Agreement, the EPC Payment Scheme Management Rules, Risk Management, and the Instructions for the Refund Procedure for Unauthorised Transactions; the SWIFT message used for a refund claim (DS-08) and a mandate copy request (DS-10) is called the suitable SWIFT message and is never identified, in the rulebook or the Implementation Guidelines; the e-mandate documents EPC002-09 and EPC114-08 were not read, so e-mandate messages and process steps are absent from the profile; settlement mechanics, cut-off times and settlement finality under Directive 98/26/EC come from each CSM, not from the scheme; no CSM document was read; the TARGET Days Calendar and EPC409-09, the list of SEPA scheme countries, were not read for the profile; no national transposition of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 was read, so the consumer-law and refund facets state the Directive rather than the law a debtor actually holds; the status of the PSD3 and PSR successor package as of September 2026 is unknown.