As Computer Weekly reports:
The Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) is intended to allow trucks to declare goods ahead of reaching the border, allowing for smoother traffic flow, particularly at busier ports such as Dover.
But as they note:
However, the government has yet to begin the build of the IT system, MPs on the Future Relationship with the European Union Committee were told.
In contrast, they note that Tim Reardon, head of EU Exit at the Port of Dover, has said:
“We're still at the stage of making sure the definition and the specification of the system is correct so it's built with a fighting chance of doing what it's needed to do.”
But as he noted the French already have a working system:
“The French customs have tested their system. They've done it a couple of times and established that the data flow worked. The challenge is to make sure the lorries go where they're told to go, but there are ways of achieving that. I am certain that the GVMS system will similarly be tested, but it needs to be built before it can be tested,” he said.
The sting was in the tail:
However, Reardon added that if “HMRC were to buy a licence for the French system, that would be a very simple thing to do and traders would like it”.
Dammit, we can't even do Brexit without EU support......
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All my discussions with interested parties reveal a total and absolute shambles. The UK will not choose the pragmatic solution and copy the French system because this would pollute the purity of Brexit. There will be a homegrown “solution”. We have to question the underlying motivation. Over one billion pounds of contracts have been awarded without proper tendering and transparency. If this happened in a developing economy we would all be treated to long diatribes about the quality of governance.
“Reardon added that if “HMRC were to buy a licence for the French system, that would be a very simple thing to do and traders would like it”. But the problem with that is that by definition, a system designed by experts from a country that is within the EU can be neither acceptable to a proud independent sovereign state with a global vision, while Britain’s Cummingsocrats have under wraps a world beating system that will enable us in the UK to trade with the world on our terms. Why should we use a system designed by the snivelling perfidious French who surrendered back in 1940, when we, who won a glorious victory at Dunkirk, and stood alone proud and defiant, have created this world beating system that will ensure the security of the borders of proud sovereign independent glorious Britannia ruling the waves that defend the White Cliffs of Dover………?
Buy from an EU country? Boris and his acolytes seem to think they are Stalinists and have it in for us. The idea of buying the French system while sensible isn’t going to fly with the global Brexit Britain ideologists. You have to admit there would be a huge sense of irony if the UK had to rely on France for its new found trading “independence”.
However, Gove has already given the game away. The plan, if that’s what you can call it, appears to be to wave most things through from the 1st next year, at least until July apparently. The problem is that he has admitted that the new IT system will not be ready until 2025. Fact is that given the poor record that the UK has in a) delivering these systems on time and to budget and b) they often fall short of delivering, then it will probably more likely be 2027/28. So, what is likely to happen is that July will be extended, again and again, etc, etc. It is probably the only extension the Brexiteers will like, until member states of the WTO start questioning them on whether EU tariffs are being collected. If it’s no deal it will start to get real tricky really quick with all those countries that we do collect tariffs from. It won’t be a good start to trading on WTO terms if one of the first things we do is break all their rules.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-border-checks-trade-michael-gove-eu-a9328211.html
The issue with Michael Gove’s brilliant solution is that if trucks enter the UK twice as fast as they leave, a problem will soon develop. Either every truck in Europe will be parked in the UK, or else the rate of entry will have to slow down to match the rate of exit.
It is quite ironic, I spent a happy year of my career in HM Customs in 1992 visiting British firms and explaining how with the Single Market they would no longer have to complete complicated Customs declarations, just a one line summary data submission on the new Intrastat system of their trade with the EU. It was one time when I was welcomed with open arms!
Johnson has allegedly told Northern Irish businesses to put any Customs declarations forms they receive in the bin- so is he also going to volunteer to pay the penalties HMRC will impose for non submission ?
He was wrong
He lied
They have to do them
They will hate it
Business will hate Brexit
What part of business is left, that is
It would be silly licensing the version they have in Calais. Everything will be in French!
I can’t quite believe you said that
….and driving on the wrong side of the road……
What will happen, of course, is that the British system will be outsourced and somebody will receive a ludicrously fat fee for bodging something together which doesn’t work properly. They will then be given further contracts to fix it and they will gradually duplicate the French system until they get something which just about works. Net cost, multiples of licensing the French system.
Why not get the bloke that designed the “world beating” COVID tracking app to put a solution in place?
Meanwhile, the logistics people will be offering comfort and solace, as usual. No charge for that.