diff --git a/dmp-backend/web/src/main/java/eu/eudat/logic/managers/DatasetManager.java b/dmp-backend/web/src/main/java/eu/eudat/logic/managers/DatasetManager.java
index 0daf2f774..69fe8f399 100644
--- a/dmp-backend/web/src/main/java/eu/eudat/logic/managers/DatasetManager.java
+++ b/dmp-backend/web/src/main/java/eu/eudat/logic/managers/DatasetManager.java
@@ -41,11 +41,19 @@ import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 import org.springframework.util.LinkedMultiValueMap;
 import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
 import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
 
 import javax.activation.MimetypesFileTypeMap;
 import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
 import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
 import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
 import java.io.*;
 import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.net.URL;
@@ -322,6 +330,8 @@ public class DatasetManager {
         eu.eudat.data.entities.Dataset dataset = datasetWizardModel.toDataModel();
         dataset.setDmp(dmp);
         propertiesModelToString(datasetWizardModel, dataset);
+        if (datasetWizardModel.getStatus() == (int) Dataset.Status.FINALISED.getValue())
+            checkDatasetValidation(dataset);
         UserInfo userInfo = apiContext.getOperationsContext().getBuilderFactory().getBuilder(UserInfoBuilder.class).id(principal.getId()).build();
         dataset.setCreator(userInfo);
         updateTags(apiContext.getOperationsContext().getDatasetRepository(), datasetWizardModel);
@@ -332,6 +342,30 @@ public class DatasetManager {
         return apiContext.getOperationsContext().getDatabaseRepository().getDatasetDao().createOrUpdate(dataset);
     }
 
+    private void checkDatasetValidation(Dataset dataset) throws Exception {
+        List<String> datasetProfileValidators = new LinkedList<>();
+        DatasetProfile profile = apiContext.getOperationsContext().getDatabaseRepository().getDatasetProfileDao().find(dataset.getProfile().getId());
+        DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        DocumentBuilder builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
+        Document xmlDocument = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(profile.getDefinition().getBytes()));
+
+        XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
+        String expression = "//validation/@type[.=1]/ancestor::field/@id";
+        NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.compile(expression).evaluate(xmlDocument, XPathConstants.NODESET);
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
+            Node node = nodeList.item(i);
+            datasetProfileValidators.add(node.getNodeValue());
+        }
+
+        JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(dataset.getProperties());
+        for (String validator : datasetProfileValidators) {
+            if (obj.getString(validator) == null || obj.getString(validator).trim().isEmpty()) {
+                throw new Exception("Field value of " + validator + " must be filled.");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     private void propertiesModelToString(DatasetWizardModel datasetWizardModel, eu.eudat.data.entities.Dataset dataset) {
         Map<String, Object> values = new HashMap();
         PagedDatasetProfile properties = datasetWizardModel.getDatasetProfileDefinition();