🚛 Here is an interesting fact - it’s end of June and we don’t yet have a functioning border management system.
Remember the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS)? The system that was supposed to be first implemented in January to manage our borders?
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Remember the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS)? The system that was supposed to be first implemented in January to manage our borders?
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Remember how we all talked about the fact that you don’t build IT systems in a few months? That they require testing etc? And how Gov was sure it will be ready?
It wasn’t ready so the full implementation was pushed back to June.
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It wasn’t ready so the full implementation was pushed back to June.
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A while back, together with all the announcements around further easements and extensions, GVMS was pushed back to Jan 2022.
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The thing is I’m not entirely sure whether the whole extension of deferred customs declarations and suspension of full controls on the UK border wasn’t caused by just this – the IT system not being ready.
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So where are we with this?
It’s being tested with the hope of getting it ready for Jan 2022. A year after it should have been implemented.
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It’s being tested with the hope of getting it ready for Jan 2022. A year after it should have been implemented.
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Meanwhile, the French built and implemented their smart border system, SI Brexit, on time.
Cause they started preparing it earlier.
You really can't make these things up.
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Cause they started preparing it earlier.
You really can't make these things up.
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