New Computerised Transit System – Phase 5 (NCTS-P5)
What has changed under NCTS-P5?
You will notice the following significant changes in NCTS-P5:
- There is a new data set for the transit declaration, as specified under the Union Customs Code. While most of the information needed to complete your transit declaration is the same as the data used in NCTS-P4, there are some new data elements. Details are contained in the NCTS-P5 message structures document.
- It allows you to lodge your transit declarations up to 30 days before you present your goods to Customs. If you lodge your transit declaration pre-presentation, you will have to submit a presentation notification to Customs when your goods are ready to transit.
- Provision of a six digit HS code is mandatory.
New messages in NCTS-P5
- When Customs transit declarations are pre-lodged, a 'Presentation notification for the pre-lodged declaration (IE170)' message, must be lodged when the goods are presented.
- A ‘Functional Nack (IE906)' message is used to report business validation errors, for example, violation of rules and conditions.
- An ‘XML Nack (IE917)' message is used to reject external domain messages for syntactic validation errors, for example, XSD errors.
Additional NCTS-P5 functionality to be deployed later in 2025
When this functionality is deployed, NCTS-P5 will:
- facilitate registration of ‘Incidents en route’. For this reason, a new office role is introduced, which is named ‘Office of Incidents Registration’.
- interface electronically with our export declaration system, Automated Export System (AES), to support the scenario ‘export followed by transit’.
You will find further information about what will change under NCTS-P5 and the key timelines in NCTS-P5 presentation.
Further information
If you require further information, please email UCCITDev@revenue.ie