HMRC has announced downtime of both Customs Declaration Service and Goods Vehicle Movement System on Saturday 15 October 2022 21:30 to 22:30. Due to scheduled maintenance, creating, updating, or embarking a goods movement reference during this time will be affected. Declarations submitted in this time will be processed at the end of the downtime.

If you need to complete a goods movement reference during the downtime, make sure any Movement Reference Numbers (MRNs) you add have been created and released before the downtime.

You will not be able to:

• add import declaration
• add export declarations
• validate goods movement references

Further information on the CDS downtime can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/customs-declaration-service-service-availability-and-issues#planned-downtime

Further information on the GVMS downtime can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-for-the-goods-vehicle-movement-service-service-availability-and-issues/register-for-the-goods-vehicle-movement-service-service-availability-and-issues