diff --git a/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt b/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt
index 11098c0745..39e45fd834 100644
--- a/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt
+++ b/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@
       <text:p text:style-name="P9"/>
      </table:table-cell>
      <table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.B1" table:number-columns-spanned="2" office:value-type="string">
-      <text:p text:style-name="P8"><text:placeholder text:placeholder-type="text">&lt;mandate.company.party.addresses[0].country.rec_name if mandate.company.party.addresses[0].country else &apos;&apos;&gt;</text:placeholder></text:p>
+      <text:p text:style-name="P8"><text:placeholder text:placeholder-type="text">&lt;mandate.company.party.addresses[0].country.rec_name if mandate.company.party.addresses and mandate.company.party.addresses[0].country else &apos;&apos;&gt;</text:placeholder></text:p>
      </table:table-cell>
      <table:covered-table-cell/>
     </table:table-row>