Goods Vehicle Movement Service — service availability and issues

Service issues

If there are any issues with the service we will tell you about the temporary arrangements to keep your goods moving.

Scheduled maintenance

ThereScheduled is planned maintenance work for ourthe CustomsGoods DeclarationVehicle Movement Service system(GVMS) onwill Saturdaytake 6thplace Julyfrom 2024,6am 9:30pm to 5:30am7:45am Sundayon 7thThursday July13 June 2024.

ThisDuring willthis impacttime, usersyou of the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS).

You will not be able to:

• add import or export declarations
• validate goods movement references

If possible, you should add declarations to goods movement references before or after the scheduled maintenance.

The GVMS Core service will be fully available during the Customs Declaration Service downtime.

Scheduled maintenance for the GVMS will take place from 10pm to 10:30pm on Saturday 15 June 2024.

Once the maintenance is completed, declarations submitted in this downtime will be processed.

Goods movement references remain mandatory for freight movements using GVMS.

Hauliers without a valid goods movement reference will be turned away.

You should not turn off goods movement reference validation during this period of downtime.

We apologise for any convenienceinconvenience this may cause.

Goods Vehicle Movement Service

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