diff --git a/include-metadata/TranslationTemplateBundle-EID70a263c0-0ad7-42f2-9d4d-0d8a4ca71b52.xml b/include-metadata/TranslationTemplateBundle-EID70a263c0-0ad7-42f2-9d4d-0d8a4ca71b52.xml
index af6b3d237..10a6a5c69 100644
--- a/include-metadata/TranslationTemplateBundle-EID70a263c0-0ad7-42f2-9d4d-0d8a4ca71b52.xml
+++ b/include-metadata/TranslationTemplateBundle-EID70a263c0-0ad7-42f2-9d4d-0d8a4ca71b52.xml
@@ -542,6 +542,11 @@
 	   <TranslationTemplate language="en" name="TR.invalidDateForThesaurusGemet">XML document '{filename}', record '{id}': The metadata record has keywords which originate from a controlled vocabulary 'GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0', but the date or date type is not correct. Date should be '2008-06-01' and date type 'publication'. The keywords are: {keywords}.</TranslationTemplate>
 	  </translationTemplates>
 	 </LangTranslationTemplateCollection>
+	 <LangTranslationTemplateCollection name="TR.emptyDateTypeCode">
+	  <translationTemplates>
+	   <TranslationTemplate language="en" name="TR.emptyDateTypeCode">XML document '{filename}', record '{id}': The metadata record has keywords which originate from a controlled vocabulary 'GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0', but the gmd:CI_DateTypeCode element is empty. The keywords are: {keywords}.</TranslationTemplate>
+	  </translationTemplates>
+	 </LangTranslationTemplateCollection>
 	 <LangTranslationTemplateCollection name="TR.noTypeFromSpatialDataServiceType">
 	  <translationTemplates>
 	   <TranslationTemplate language="en" name="TR.noTypeFromSpatialDataServiceType">XML document '{filename}', record '{id}': Every service metadata record must have a service type that is one of the codes from the code list at {url}. Found: {type}.</TranslationTemplate>
diff --git a/metadata/iso/ets-md-iso-bsxets.xml b/metadata/iso/ets-md-iso-bsxets.xml
index a53c2bcc3..fd2c6f4b8 100644
--- a/metadata/iso/ets-md-iso-bsxets.xml
+++ b/metadata/iso/ets-md-iso-bsxets.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Source: <a href="http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/ats/metadata/1.3/iso-19115-19119
 Pre-requisite conformance classes:
 <ul><li><a href="http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/ats/metadata/1.3/xml-encoding" target="_blank">Conformance Class 'XML encoding of ISO 19115/19119 metadata'</a></li></ul>]]></description>
 	<reference>../../inspire-md-bsxets.xq</reference>
-	<version>0.2.7</version>
+	<version>0.2.9</version>
 	<author>interactive instruments GmbH</author>
 	<creationDate>2016-08-30T00:00:00Z</creationDate>
 	<lastEditor>interactive instruments GmbH</lastEditor>
@@ -1272,6 +1272,8 @@ let $messages :=
 				local:addMessage('TR.noKeywordFromINSPIREThemes',  map { 'filename': local:filename($record), 'id': $rid, 'url': $inspireThemesCodeListURL, 'keywords': fn:string-join($relevantDescriptiveKeywordsBlocks/gmd:keyword/*/text(),'; ') })
 			 else if (not($hasExpectedDate)) then
 				local:addMessage('TR.invalidDateForThesaurusGemet',  map { 'filename': local:filename($record), 'id': $rid, 'keywords' : fn:string-join($relevantDescriptiveKeywordsBlocks/gmd:keyword/*/text(),'; ') })
+			 else if (string-length(normalize-space($relevantDescriptiveKeywordsBlocks/gmd:thesaurusName/*/gmd:date/*/gmd:dateType/*/text())) = 0) then
+				local:addMessage('TR.emptyDateTypeCode',  map { 'filename': local:filename($record), 'id': $rid, 'keywords' : fn:string-join($relevantDescriptiveKeywordsBlocks/gmd:keyword/*/text(),'; ') })
 			 else ()
 			)[position() le $limitErrors]
 		} catch * {
@@ -1286,6 +1288,7 @@ return
 									<translationTemplates>
 										<translationTemplate ref="TR.noKeywordFromINSPIREThemes"/>
 										<translationTemplate ref="TR.invalidDateForThesaurusGemet"/>
+										<translationTemplate ref="TR.emptyDateTypeCode"/>
 										<translationTemplate ref="TR.recordsWithErrors"/>
 									</translationTemplates>
 								</TestAssertion>