CDS Downtime – Saturday 24th June

Due to scheduled maintenance the Customs Declaration Service will be unavailable from 9:30pm on Saturday 24th June 2023 until 3:00am on Sunday 25th June 2023.

Declarations submitted during this timeframe will be processed at the end of the downtime.

Creating, updating, or embarking a goods movement reference (GMR) that are linked to CDS could be affected during the times listed.  For guidance on GVMS please refer to the GVMS service availability and issues page.

Please see the below link for more information

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

In addition, here is a supplementary guidance document on the changes being introduced in CDS release 4.1.0 scheduled for deployment on the 24th of June 2023