CDS Maintenance and Planned Downtime

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Sandra Strong
19 September 2023

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Due to scheduled maintenance on the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), the service will be unavailable between 9:30 pm Saturday, 23rd September, to 04.30 am Sunday, 24th September.

The outage is confirmed to be of 7 hours duration and will support a further software release of the CDS system. 


Declarations submitted during this time will be processed at the end of the scheduled maintenance.


Creating, updating, or embarking a goods movement reference (GMR) that are linked to the Customs Declaration Service could be affected during the scheduled maintenance.


For guidance on the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS), check the GVMS service availability and issues page.



We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.



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