diff --git a/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt b/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt
index 838931374e..1bdf2a11aa 100644
--- a/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt
+++ b/modules/account_payment_sepa/mandate.fodt
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@
       <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="Table_20_Contents"><text:placeholder text:placeholder-type="text">&lt;mandate.account_number.account.bank.bic if mandate.account_number else &apos;&apos;&gt;</text:placeholder></text:p>
+      <text:p text:style-name="Table_20_Contents"><text:placeholder text:placeholder-type="text">&lt;mandate.account_number.account.bank.bic if mandate.account_number and mandate.account_number.account.bank else &apos;&apos;&gt;</text:placeholder></text:p>
      </table:table-cell>
      <table:covered-table-cell/>
     </table:table-row>