MT 106 Field Specifications

3. Field 21: Related Reference

FORMAT

16x

PRESENCE

Mandatory

DEFINITION

This field contains the reference to the associated (enveloped) EDIFACT message.

USAGE RULES

The content of this field should reflect, up to a maximum of 16, the significant characters of the Document/Message Number (Data Element 1004) in the Beginning of Message (BGM) segment of the EDIFACT message embedded in field 77G. When more than one MT 106 is sent to convey the EDIFACT message the content of field 21 must be the same for each MT 106 in the series.

This requirement is to facilitate the unambiguous re-association of the separate 'pages' of the transaction, and also to provide a direct link to the EDIFACT message in case of further processing.