What is an Entry Summary Declaration?
An Entry Summary Declaration is a safety and security declaration which must be submitted prior to goods entering Northern Ireland for which the legal responsibility for submission falls with the carrier.
Below you will find a list of step-by-step guides, videos and checklists to help you with completion of the Entry Summary Declaration before your goods move, including data requirements, submission into the TSS Portal, common errors and how to resolve them.
User Guides
- Entry Summary Declaration: Step-by-step guide – this guide outlines how to complete an Entry Summary Declaration for accompanied and unaccompanied roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) movements from Great Britain to Northern Ireland using the TSS Portal
- ENS step-by-step guide for maritime movements from GB to NI – this guide outlines how to complete an Entry Summary Declaration for maritime movements from Great Britain to non-inventory linked ports in Northern Ireland using the TSS Portal.
- Pre-movement Internal Market Movement (IMMI): Step-by-Step guide – this guide outlines how to complete an Entry Summary Declaration and a subsequent Internal Market Movement Information (IMMI) in the TSS Portal when moving goods using the simplified processes for Internal Market Movements. This process removes the need for a supplementary declaration following goods arrival in Northern Ireland.
- Entry Summary Declaration / Simplified Frontier Declaration Error Codes Guidance – this guide provides information on common error codes triggered by incorrectly submitted Entry Summary and Frontier Declarations.
Videos
- Video: Create and submit an Entry Summary Declaration (duration 06:24)
- Video: How to submit an ENS Only Declaration (duration 06:16)
Checklists
- Checklist: Entry Summary Declarations – for hauliers and carriers
- Checklist: Entry Summary Declarations – for freight forwarders
- Checklist: Entry Summary Declarations for traders of standard goods
- Checklist: Entry Summary Declarations for traders of controlled goods
- Checklist: Entry Summary Declarations for traders of excise goods
- Checklist: Entry Summary Declarations for traders of SPS goods
Further Reading
- How to create a GMR – this guide outlines how to submit a Goods Movement Reference (GMR) which is the next step following creation of the Entry Summary Declaration
- Checklist: Creating a GMR in GVMS
- Windsor Framework using the TSS – this webinar provides information to support the businesses or persons responsible for submitting Entry Summary Declarations
- Guidance on controlled goods and the online tariff tool
- Checklist: Oral declarations
- Merchandise in baggage