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+@opendpp/vies
+Copyright (c) Opendpp UAB.
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+This product includes software developed by Opendpp UAB.
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see the LICENSE file).
+
+This package validates EU VAT identification numbers against the European
+Commission's official VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) service, part of the
+Taxation and Customs Union. Opendpp UAB is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by,
+the European Commission. The service is provided by the European Commission under
+its own terms; this package merely formats requests to, and parses responses from,
+that service. See https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/
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+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenDPP/opendpp-interop/main/assets/opendpp-mark.png" alt="OpenDPP" width="80" height="80">
+</p>
+
+# @opendpp/vies
+
+EU VAT-number validation against the **European Commission's official VIES
+service** — the EU's authoritative cross-border VAT validator — plus pure,
+zero-dependency **offline syntax/parsing** helpers (ESM, Node ≥ 26).
+From the [OpenDPP](https://opendpp-node.eu) Digital Product Passport service.
+
+> Part of the OpenDPP **open client** surface (Apache-2.0). The hosted node —
+> resolver, eIDAS sealing, did:web/status-list issuance, 15-year persistence —
+> stays a service you call, not code you run. See
+> [`opendpp-interop`](https://github.com/OpenDPP/opendpp-interop).
+
+## Why
+
+A VAT identification number is the tax identity of the economic operator
+responsible for a product — part of the operator identity a Digital Product
+Passport carries. Two checks matter:
+
+1. **Syntax** — cheap, offline: a 2-letter country prefix + 5–12 alphanumerics.
+2. **Existence** — authoritative, online: is the VAT number actually registered?
+   The single authoritative source is the European Commission's
+   [VIES](https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/) (VAT Information Exchange
+   System) service. This package speaks to it directly — no third-party
+   intermediary.
+
+## Install
+
+```sh
+npm install @opendpp/vies
+```
+
+## Existence check (online)
+
+```ts
+import { checkVatId, isVatRegistered } from "@opendpp/vies";
+
+const result = await checkVatId("IE1234567X");
+// {
+//   input: "IE1234567X",
+//   vatId: "IE1234567X",
+//   validSyntax: true,
+//   valid: true,                       // VIES confirms the number is registered
+//   checked: true,
+//   name: "EXAMPLE TRADING LTD",       // only when VIES discloses it ("---" is dropped)
+//   address: "1 SAMPLE STREET, DUBLIN",
+//   countryCode: "IE",
+//   requestDate: "2026-06-30+02:00",
+//   statusDescription: "Valid",
+//   source: "ec-europa-vies",
+//   checkedAt: "2026-06-30T…Z",
+// }
+
+await isVatRegistered("IE1234567X"); // true
+```
+
+**Syntactically-impossible input is never sent over the wire** — it short-circuits
+to `source: "offline-syntax"`, `checked: false`, `valid: false`. Only well-formed
+VAT IDs reach the service.
+
+VIES answers **one VAT ID per request**; `checkVatIdBatch(ids)` queries
+sequentially (a good citizen against a government endpoint) and de-duplicates
+repeats, returning one result per input, in order.
+
+### Injectable transport (SSRF-safe servers)
+
+The package has **zero runtime dependencies** and uses the global `fetch` by
+default. A server can inject its own transport (e.g. an SSRF-guarded fetch — the
+endpoint host is fixed to `ec.europa.eu`, so pinning is trivial):
+
+```ts
+import { checkVatId, type ViesTransport } from "@opendpp/vies";
+
+const guarded: ViesTransport = async (url, req) => {
+  const res = await safeFetch(url, { method: req.method, headers: req.headers, body: req.body, signal: req.signal });
+  return { status: res.status, text: () => res.text() };
+};
+
+await checkVatId("IE1234567X", { transport: guarded, timeoutMs: 10_000 });
+```
+
+## Offline syntax & parsing (pure)
+
+```ts
+import {
+  isValidEuVatId,
+  normalizeVatId,
+  parseVatId,
+  isEuVatPrefix,
+  EU_VAT_PREFIXES,
+} from "@opendpp/vies";
+
+isValidEuVatId("DE123456789"); // true
+isValidEuVatId("EL123456789"); // true  (Greece uses the VAT prefix "EL")
+isValidEuVatId("US123456789"); // false (not an EU prefix)
+
+normalizeVatId(" ie 1234 567 x "); // "IE1234567X"
+
+parseVatId("el 123 456 789");
+// { input: "el 123 456 789", normalized: "EL123456789", countryCode: "EL", number: "123456789", validSyntax: true }
+
+isEuVatPrefix("EL"); // true — the 27 member-state prefixes VIES recognises live in EU_VAT_PREFIXES
+```
+
+## Notes
+
+- This package formats requests to, and parses responses from, the European
+  Commission VIES service. Opendpp UAB is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, the
+  European Commission; the service is provided under the Commission's own terms.
+- VIES is federated across the national VAT databases, which have **routine
+  maintenance windows** — treat the online check as **best-effort**: a
+  transport/parse/non-200 outcome throws `ViesServiceError`, and a temporary
+  member-state outage is not proof that a VAT number is unregistered.
+
+## The OpenDPP toolkit
+
+Open (Apache-2.0) client libraries for building against the hosted OpenDPP node —
+install only the ones you need:
+
+| Package | What it does |
+|---|---|
+| [`@opendpp/gs1`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/gs1) | GS1 Digital Link URIs + GTIN/GLN/GRAI check-digit validate & mint |
+| [`@opendpp/csv`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/csv) | Map spreadsheet / ERP rows to the passport-create shape for bulk import |
+| [`@opendpp/testdata`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/testdata) | Deterministic, category-valid sample passports + EPCIS event chains |
+| [`@opendpp/webhooks`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/webhooks) | Webhook event types + a constant-time HMAC-SHA256 verifier |
+| [`@opendpp/eori`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/eori) | Validate EU EORI numbers against the Commission's EOS service |
+| [`@opendpp/aeo`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/aeo) | Look up AEO trusted-trader status against the EOS service |
+| [`@opendpp/vies`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/vies) | Validate EU VAT numbers against the Commission's VIES service |
+| [`@opendpp/sdk`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opendpp/sdk) | Generated TypeScript client for the full public API |
+
+They integrate *with* the hosted node — where passports are validated against ESPR
+category rules, cryptographically sealed, resolved via GS1 Digital Link, and kept for
+the 15-year retention window. **Start building:**
+[opendpp-node.eu](https://opendpp-node.eu) ·
+[API reference](https://opendpp-node.eu/api-reference) ·
+[developer hub](https://opendpp-node.eu/app/developers).
+
+## License
+
+[Apache-2.0](./LICENSE) © Opendpp UAB. See [`NOTICE`](./NOTICE). "OpenDPP" is a
+trademark of Opendpp UAB; this license grants no rights to the marks.

package/dist/check.d.ts

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+/**
+ * @opendpp/vies — online VAT-ID existence check (EU Commission VIES)
+ *
+ * Checks whether an EU VAT identifier is registered, against the European
+ * Commission's official VIES REST service — the EU's authoritative cross-border VAT
+ * validator, the machine equivalent of the interactive page at
+ * https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/
+ *
+ * The HTTP transport is injectable: by default the global `fetch` is used, but a
+ * consumer (e.g. an SSRF-guarded server) can supply its own. The package itself
+ * stays zero-dependency.
+ *
+ * Syntactically-impossible input is answered offline (no network round-trip) with
+ * `source: "offline-syntax"`; only well-formed VAT IDs reach the service. VIES is
+ * queried one VAT ID per REST call and publishes no fixed numeric rate cap, so
+ * batches are sent sequentially and a caller that needs throttling injects it via
+ * the transport.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) Opendpp UAB.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
+ * this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
+ * License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
+ * under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+ * CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * "OpenDPP" is a trademark of Opendpp UAB; the Apache-2.0 license grants no rights to the marks.
+ */
+/** Official EU Commission VIES REST endpoint (one VAT ID per call). */
+export declare const VIES_CHECK_URL = "https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/check-vat-number";
+/** Human-facing EU Commission VIES validator (informational). */
+export declare const VIES_HOMEPAGE = "https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/";
+/** Thrown when the VIES service errors, is unreachable, or returns an unreadable response. */
+export declare class ViesServiceError extends Error {
+    constructor(message: string, options?: {
+        cause?: unknown;
+    });
+}
+/** Minimal response surface a transport must expose. */
+export type ViesTransportResponse = {
+    status: number;
+    text(): Promise<string>;
+};
+/** Request a transport receives. Mirrors the relevant `fetch` init fields. */
+export type ViesTransportRequest = {
+    method: "POST";
+    headers: Record<string, string>;
+    body: string;
+    signal?: AbortSignal;
+};
+/**
+ * Pluggable HTTP transport. The default uses the global `fetch`; a server can inject
+ * an SSRF-guarded implementation (the endpoint host is fixed to ec.europa.eu, so
+ * pinning is straightforward).
+ */
+export type ViesTransport = (url: string, request: ViesTransportRequest) => Promise<ViesTransportResponse>;
+/** Where the answer in a {@link ViesCheckResult} came from. */
+export type ViesCheckSource = "ec-europa-vies" | "offline-syntax";
+export type ViesCheckOptions = {
+    /** override the HTTP transport (default: global `fetch`) */
+    transport?: ViesTransport;
+    /** override the service endpoint (default: {@link VIES_CHECK_URL}) */
+    endpoint?: string;
+    /** per-call timeout in ms (default 8000); ignored if `signal` is supplied */
+    timeoutMs?: number;
+    /** caller-controlled abort signal */
+    signal?: AbortSignal;
+};
+/** The outcome of checking a single VAT ID. */
+export interface ViesCheckResult {
+    /** the caller's raw input */
+    input: string;
+    /** the normalised VAT ID that was (or would have been) queried */
+    vatId: string;
+    /** whether `input` is even syntactically a possible EU VAT ID (offline pre-check) */
+    validSyntax: boolean;
+    /** true iff VIES confirms the VAT ID is registered */
+    valid: boolean;
+    /** whether the online check actually ran (well-formed id + the service answered) */
+    checked: boolean;
+    /** registered trader name — only present when VIES discloses one */
+    name?: string;
+    /** registered trader address — only present when VIES discloses one */
+    address?: string;
+    /** the 2-letter VAT country prefix that was queried */
+    countryCode?: string;
+    /** request timestamp echoed by the service */
+    requestDate?: string;
+    /** the service's human-readable status, or a local explanation */
+    statusDescription: string;
+    /** where this answer came from */
+    source: ViesCheckSource;
+    /** ISO 8601 timestamp of when this client produced the result */
+    checkedAt: string;
+}
+/**
+ * Check whether a single VAT ID is registered in VIES.
+ *
+ * Syntactically-impossible input is reported offline (no network round-trip) with
+ * `source: "offline-syntax"`, `checked: false`. Everything else is sent to the
+ * authoritative service.
+ */
+export declare function checkVatId(input: string, options?: ViesCheckOptions): Promise<ViesCheckResult>;
+/** Convenience: resolve to `true` iff VIES confirms the VAT ID is registered. */
+export declare function isVatRegistered(input: string, options?: ViesCheckOptions): Promise<boolean>;
+/**
+ * Check many VAT IDs. VIES answers one VAT ID per REST call, so this queries
+ * SEQUENTIALLY (a good citizen against a government endpoint — no parallel burst)
+ * and caches by normalised id, so a repeated id is only queried once. Returns one
+ * result per input, in the input order.
+ */
+export declare function checkVatIdBatch(inputs: readonly string[], options?: ViesCheckOptions): Promise<ViesCheckResult[]>;

package/dist/check.js

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+/**
+ * @opendpp/vies — online VAT-ID existence check (EU Commission VIES)
+ *
+ * Checks whether an EU VAT identifier is registered, against the European
+ * Commission's official VIES REST service — the EU's authoritative cross-border VAT
+ * validator, the machine equivalent of the interactive page at
+ * https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/
+ *
+ * The HTTP transport is injectable: by default the global `fetch` is used, but a
+ * consumer (e.g. an SSRF-guarded server) can supply its own. The package itself
+ * stays zero-dependency.
+ *
+ * Syntactically-impossible input is answered offline (no network round-trip) with
+ * `source: "offline-syntax"`; only well-formed VAT IDs reach the service. VIES is
+ * queried one VAT ID per REST call and publishes no fixed numeric rate cap, so
+ * batches are sent sequentially and a caller that needs throttling injects it via
+ * the transport.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) Opendpp UAB.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
+ * this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
+ * License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
+ * under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+ * CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * "OpenDPP" is a trademark of Opendpp UAB; the Apache-2.0 license grants no rights to the marks.
+ */
+import { normalizeVatId, parseVatId } from "./format.js";
+/** Official EU Commission VIES REST endpoint (one VAT ID per call). */
+export const VIES_CHECK_URL = "https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/check-vat-number";
+/** Human-facing EU Commission VIES validator (informational). */
+export const VIES_HOMEPAGE = "https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/";
+const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS = 8_000;
+/** Thrown when the VIES service errors, is unreachable, or returns an unreadable response. */
+export class ViesServiceError extends Error {
+    constructor(message, options) {
+        super(message, options);
+        this.name = "ViesServiceError";
+    }
+}
+const defaultTransport = async (url, request) => {
+    const res = await fetch(url, {
+        method: request.method,
+        headers: request.headers,
+        body: request.body,
+        signal: request.signal,
+    });
+    return { status: res.status, text: () => res.text() };
+};
+function resolveSignal(options) {
+    if (options.signal)
+        return options.signal;
+    const ms = options.timeoutMs ?? DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS;
+    return ms > 0 ? AbortSignal.timeout(ms) : undefined;
+}
+/**
+ * Check whether a single VAT ID is registered in VIES.
+ *
+ * Syntactically-impossible input is reported offline (no network round-trip) with
+ * `source: "offline-syntax"`, `checked: false`. Everything else is sent to the
+ * authoritative service.
+ */
+export async function checkVatId(input, options = {}) {
+    const parts = parseVatId(input);
+    const checkedAt = new Date().toISOString();
+    if (!parts.validSyntax) {
+        return {
+            input: parts.input,
+            vatId: parts.normalized,
+            validSyntax: false,
+            valid: false,
+            checked: false,
+            statusDescription: "Not queried: not a syntactically valid EU VAT identifier.",
+            source: "offline-syntax",
+            checkedAt,
+        };
+    }
+    const transport = options.transport ?? defaultTransport;
+    const endpoint = options.endpoint ?? VIES_CHECK_URL;
+    let response;
+    try {
+        response = await transport(endpoint, {
+            method: "POST",
+            headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+            body: JSON.stringify({ countryCode: parts.countryCode, vatNumber: parts.number }),
+            signal: resolveSignal(options),
+        });
+    }
+    catch (cause) {
+        throw new ViesServiceError("VIES VAT validation request failed (transport error).", { cause });
+    }
+    if (response.status < 200 || response.status >= 300) {
+        throw new ViesServiceError(`VIES VAT validation service returned HTTP ${response.status}.`);
+    }
+    const text = await response.text();
+    let body;
+    try {
+        body = JSON.parse(text);
+    }
+    catch (cause) {
+        throw new ViesServiceError("VIES VAT validation service returned an unparseable response.", {
+            cause,
+        });
+    }
+    const data = (body ?? {});
+    if (typeof data.valid !== "boolean") {
+        throw new ViesServiceError("VIES VAT validation service returned an unrecognised response.");
+    }
+    const valid = data.valid;
+    // VIES fills unavailable fields with "---" — only surface a real name/address.
+    const name = typeof data.name === "string" && data.name !== "---" ? data.name : undefined;
+    const address = typeof data.address === "string" && data.address !== "---" ? data.address : undefined;
+    const requestDate = typeof data.requestDate === "string" ? data.requestDate : undefined;
+    return {
+        input: parts.input,
+        vatId: parts.normalized,
+        validSyntax: true,
+        valid,
+        checked: true,
+        ...(name ? { name } : {}),
+        ...(address ? { address } : {}),
+        countryCode: parts.countryCode,
+        ...(requestDate ? { requestDate } : {}),
+        statusDescription: valid ? "Valid" : "Not valid",
+        source: "ec-europa-vies",
+        checkedAt,
+    };
+}
+/** Convenience: resolve to `true` iff VIES confirms the VAT ID is registered. */
+export async function isVatRegistered(input, options = {}) {
+    const result = await checkVatId(input, options);
+    return result.valid;
+}
+/**
+ * Check many VAT IDs. VIES answers one VAT ID per REST call, so this queries
+ * SEQUENTIALLY (a good citizen against a government endpoint — no parallel burst)
+ * and caches by normalised id, so a repeated id is only queried once. Returns one
+ * result per input, in the input order.
+ */
+export async function checkVatIdBatch(inputs, options = {}) {
+    const byNormalized = new Map();
+    const results = [];
+    for (const input of inputs) {
+        const normalized = normalizeVatId(input);
+        const cached = byNormalized.get(normalized);
+        if (cached) {
+            results.push({ ...cached, input: String(input ?? "") });
+            continue;
+        }
+        const result = await checkVatId(input, options);
+        byNormalized.set(normalized, result);
+        results.push(result);
+    }
+    return results;
+}

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+/**
+ * @opendpp/vies — offline EU VAT-ID syntax + parsing
+ *
+ * Pure, zero-dependency helpers for the *shape* of an EU VAT identifier. Existence
+ * is NOT verified here — for the authoritative check against the European
+ * Commission's VIES service see `checkVatId` in `./check`.
+ *
+ * `isValidEuVatId` is behaviour-identical to the OpenDPP node's billing VAT check
+ * (src/utils/tax.ts) so the hosted service can consume this package as its single
+ * source without changing VAT treatment, mirroring the @opendpp/gs1 / @opendpp/eori
+ * flow.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) Opendpp UAB.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
+ * this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
+ * License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
+ * under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+ * CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * "OpenDPP" is a trademark of Opendpp UAB; the Apache-2.0 license grants no rights to the marks.
+ */
+/**
+ * The 2-letter prefixes the EU VIES service recognises: the 27 EU member states'
+ * ISO-3166 codes, EXCEPT Greece, which uses the VAT-style code "EL" (not its ISO
+ * code "GR"). GB/XI are deliberately absent — VIES validates neither.
+ */
+export declare const EU_VAT_PREFIXES: ReadonlySet<string>;
+/** Whether `prefix` is a 2-letter VAT country prefix VIES recognises (Greece is "EL"). */
+export declare function isEuVatPrefix(prefix: string): boolean;
+/**
+ * Canonicalise a VAT ID for transmission/comparison: strip ASCII whitespace, dots
+ * and hyphens (the separators humans sprinkle through VAT numbers) and upper-case,
+ * so " ie 1234 567 x " and "ie-1234567x" both become "IE1234567X".
+ */
+export declare function normalizeVatId(vatId: string): string;
+/**
+ * Whether `vatId` is syntactically a valid EU VAT identifier whose country prefix is
+ * a real EU member state. Syntax-only — existence is NOT verified against VIES (that
+ * needs a network call; see `checkVatId`).
+ *
+ * Behaviour-identical to `isValidEuVatId` in the OpenDPP node's src/utils/tax.ts: it
+ * upper-cases + trims (leading/trailing only — inner separators are NOT stripped, so
+ * a raw "DE 123 4567" still fails), tests the pattern, then checks the prefix against
+ * the EU set. Greece is accepted under BOTH "EL" (the VAT convention) and "GR" (its
+ * ISO code) exactly as tax.ts does, so the two predicates agree for every input.
+ */
+export declare function isValidEuVatId(vatId: string | null | undefined): boolean;
+/** Structured view of a VAT identifier. */
+export interface ParsedVatId {
+    /** the caller's raw input */
+    input: string;
+    /** `input` with whitespace/dots/hyphens stripped + upper-cased (the form sent to VIES) */
+    normalized: string;
+    /** the 2-letter VAT country prefix as VIES expects it (e.g. "EL" for Greece), or "" */
+    countryCode: string;
+    /** the national number following the country prefix, or "" */
+    number: string;
+    /** whether `normalized` is a syntactically valid EU VAT identifier */
+    validSyntax: boolean;
+}
+/**
+ * Split a VAT ID into its country prefix + national number (after normalisation).
+ * Never throws; `validSyntax` reports whether the normalised value is well-formed.
+ */
+export declare function parseVatId(vatId: string): ParsedVatId;

package/dist/format.js

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+/**
+ * @opendpp/vies — offline EU VAT-ID syntax + parsing
+ *
+ * Pure, zero-dependency helpers for the *shape* of an EU VAT identifier. Existence
+ * is NOT verified here — for the authoritative check against the European
+ * Commission's VIES service see `checkVatId` in `./check`.
+ *
+ * `isValidEuVatId` is behaviour-identical to the OpenDPP node's billing VAT check
+ * (src/utils/tax.ts) so the hosted service can consume this package as its single
+ * source without changing VAT treatment, mirroring the @opendpp/gs1 / @opendpp/eori
+ * flow.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) Opendpp UAB.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
+ * this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
+ * License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
+ * under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+ * CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * "OpenDPP" is a trademark of Opendpp UAB; the Apache-2.0 license grants no rights to the marks.
+ */
+/**
+ * The 2-letter prefixes the EU VIES service recognises: the 27 EU member states'
+ * ISO-3166 codes, EXCEPT Greece, which uses the VAT-style code "EL" (not its ISO
+ * code "GR"). GB/XI are deliberately absent — VIES validates neither.
+ */
+export const EU_VAT_PREFIXES = new Set([
+    "AT", "BE", "BG", "HR", "CY", "CZ", "DK", "EE", "FI", "FR", "DE", "EL", "HU",
+    "IE", "IT", "LV", "LT", "LU", "MT", "NL", "PL", "PT", "RO", "SK", "SI", "ES", "SE",
+]);
+/** Whether `prefix` is a 2-letter VAT country prefix VIES recognises (Greece is "EL"). */
+export function isEuVatPrefix(prefix) {
+    return EU_VAT_PREFIXES.has(String(prefix ?? "").toUpperCase());
+}
+/**
+ * Canonicalise a VAT ID for transmission/comparison: strip ASCII whitespace, dots
+ * and hyphens (the separators humans sprinkle through VAT numbers) and upper-case,
+ * so " ie 1234 567 x " and "ie-1234567x" both become "IE1234567X".
+ */
+export function normalizeVatId(vatId) {
+    return String(vatId ?? "")
+        .replace(/[\s.-]/g, "")
+        .toUpperCase();
+}
+/**
+ * VAT-ID syntax: a 2-letter country prefix followed by 5–12 alphanumerics. This is
+ * the SAME pattern the OpenDPP node's billing check enforces (src/utils/tax.ts).
+ */
+const VAT_ID_PATTERN = /^[A-Z]{2}[A-Z0-9]{5,12}$/;
+/**
+ * Whether `vatId` is syntactically a valid EU VAT identifier whose country prefix is
+ * a real EU member state. Syntax-only — existence is NOT verified against VIES (that
+ * needs a network call; see `checkVatId`).
+ *
+ * Behaviour-identical to `isValidEuVatId` in the OpenDPP node's src/utils/tax.ts: it
+ * upper-cases + trims (leading/trailing only — inner separators are NOT stripped, so
+ * a raw "DE 123 4567" still fails), tests the pattern, then checks the prefix against
+ * the EU set. Greece is accepted under BOTH "EL" (the VAT convention) and "GR" (its
+ * ISO code) exactly as tax.ts does, so the two predicates agree for every input.
+ */
+export function isValidEuVatId(vatId) {
+    if (!vatId || vatId.trim() === "")
+        return false;
+    const clean = vatId.toUpperCase().trim();
+    if (!VAT_ID_PATTERN.test(clean))
+        return false;
+    // Greece's VAT prefix is "EL"; accept its ISO code "GR" as an alias so a "GR…" id is
+    // not rejected — mirrors tax.ts's EL→Greece mapping so the predicates never disagree.
+    const prefix = clean.slice(0, 2) === "GR" ? "EL" : clean.slice(0, 2);
+    return EU_VAT_PREFIXES.has(prefix);
+}
+/**
+ * Split a VAT ID into its country prefix + national number (after normalisation).
+ * Never throws; `validSyntax` reports whether the normalised value is well-formed.
+ */
+export function parseVatId(vatId) {
+    const raw = String(vatId ?? "");
+    const normalized = normalizeVatId(raw);
+    const validSyntax = isValidEuVatId(normalized);
+    const countryCode = /^[A-Z]{2}/.test(normalized) ? normalized.slice(0, 2) : "";
+    const number = countryCode ? normalized.slice(2) : "";
+    return { input: raw, normalized, countryCode, number, validSyntax };
+}

package/dist/index.d.ts

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+/**
+ * @opendpp/vies — EU VAT-ID validation
+ *
+ * Two layers:
+ *   1. Pure, offline syntax/parsing — `isValidEuVatId`, `parseVatId`,
+ *      `normalizeVatId`, EU VAT-prefix classification.
+ *   2. Online existence check against the European Commission's official VIES
+ *      service — `checkVatId` / `checkVatIdBatch` / `isVatRegistered`.
+ *
+ * VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) is the EU Commission's official
+ * cross-border VAT-number validator (https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/).
+ * This package has zero runtime dependencies and an injectable HTTP transport.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) Opendpp UAB.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
+ * this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
+ * License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
+ * under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+ * CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * "OpenDPP" is a trademark of Opendpp UAB; the Apache-2.0 license grants no rights to the marks.
+ */
+export { EU_VAT_PREFIXES, isEuVatPrefix, normalizeVatId, isValidEuVatId, parseVatId, type ParsedVatId, } from "./format.js";
+export { VIES_CHECK_URL, VIES_HOMEPAGE, ViesServiceError, checkVatId, checkVatIdBatch, isVatRegistered, type ViesTransport, type ViesTransportRequest, type ViesTransportResponse, type ViesCheckOptions, type ViesCheckResult, type ViesCheckSource, } from "./check.js";

package/dist/index.js

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+/**
+ * @opendpp/vies — EU VAT-ID validation
+ *
+ * Two layers:
+ *   1. Pure, offline syntax/parsing — `isValidEuVatId`, `parseVatId`,
+ *      `normalizeVatId`, EU VAT-prefix classification.
+ *   2. Online existence check against the European Commission's official VIES
+ *      service — `checkVatId` / `checkVatIdBatch` / `isVatRegistered`.
+ *
+ * VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) is the EU Commission's official
+ * cross-border VAT-number validator (https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/).
+ * This package has zero runtime dependencies and an injectable HTTP transport.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) Opendpp UAB.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
+ * this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
+ * License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
+ * under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+ * CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * "OpenDPP" is a trademark of Opendpp UAB; the Apache-2.0 license grants no rights to the marks.
+ */
+export { EU_VAT_PREFIXES, isEuVatPrefix, normalizeVatId, isValidEuVatId, parseVatId, } from "./format.js";
+export { VIES_CHECK_URL, VIES_HOMEPAGE, ViesServiceError, checkVatId, checkVatIdBatch, isVatRegistered, } from "./check.js";

package/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "@opendpp/vies",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "EU VAT-ID validation against the European Commission's official VIES service, plus pure offline VAT-number syntax/parse helpers (ESM, Node >=26). From the OpenDPP Digital Product Passport service.",
+  "keywords": [
+    "vat",
+    "vat-validation",
+    "vies",
+    "european-commission",
+    "vat-id",
+    "eu",
+    "tax",
+    "dpp",
+    "digital-product-passport",
+    "espr",
+    "esm"
+  ],
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "author": "Giovanni Savastano <giovanni.savastano@opendpp-node.eu>",
+  "type": "module",
+  "main": "./dist/index.js",
+  "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": {
+      "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
+      "import": "./dist/index.js"
+    }
+  },
+  "sideEffects": false,
+  "files": [
+    "dist",
+    "LICENSE",
+    "NOTICE",
+    "README.md"
+  ],
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=26"
+  },
+  "publishConfig": {
+    "access": "public"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/OpenDPP/opendpp-interop.git",
+    "directory": "packages/vies"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/OpenDPP/opendpp-interop#readme",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/OpenDPP/opendpp-interop/issues"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",
+    "typecheck": "tsc -p tsconfig.json --noEmit",
+    "test": "node --test --import tsx 'test/*.test.ts'",
+    "prepublishOnly": "npm run build"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/node": "^26.0.1",
+    "tsx": "^4.22.4",
+    "typescript": "^6.0.3"
+  }
+}