New Computerised Transit System – Phase 5 (NCTS-P5)
How to prepare your business for NCTS-P5
Customs software
The Revenue NCTS-P5 can be accessed through your own internally developed and supported customs software, or through software provided by an external systems provider. It is important to be familiar with:
- the content and structure of the new declarations, including the new data elements
- new message types and code lists
- new message numbers
- and
- new formats for existing messages.
If you employ a customs agent to manage your customs transit formalities, you should ensure that the software your agent uses can interface with NCTS-P5.
Key message
As a trader, you should ensure that you are ready to use NCTS-P5 well in advance of 1 January 2025. From this date, it will no longer be possible to lodge transit declarations in NCTS-P4. You should engage with your software provider, whether internal or external. Software providers should engage with our Public Interface Test (PIT) environment as early as possible.
Next: What has changed under NCTS-P5?