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The UK Carrier (UKC) Scheme is an authorisation that enables businesses to move eligible consumer parcels, from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

UKC Scheme authorisation will allow your business to send these parcels without completing any customs, or safety and security declarations.

You can apply to use the UKC Scheme if you鈥檙e responsible for moving consumer parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. Consumer parcels are defined as those moving from:聽

• business to consumer
• consumer to business
• consumer to another consumer

You cannot use the UKC Scheme to move parcels which do not meet the relevant criteria. These include:

• parcels from one business to another business 鈥� you must move these parcels using the arrangements set out for freight movements in the Windsor Framework
• category 1 prohibited and restricted goods 鈥� read Annex IV of the decision of the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee on laying down arrangements relating to the Windsor Framework
• the parcel weighs no more than 31.5 kilograms or 100 kilograms if it is business-to-consumer or consumer-to-business and contains a single item

Who can apply

To apply to use the UKC Scheme, you鈥檒l need to be established in the UK.

If you鈥檙e established in Northern Ireland, you must apply for the scheme using your鈥疎ORI鈥痭umber starting XI.聽Find out how to鈥�get an鈥疎ORI鈥痭umber starting XI.

If you are not established in Northern Ireland, but have an鈥疎ORI鈥痭umber starting XI for another, legitimate customs reason, you should use that EORI number to apply.

Otherwise, you should apply for the scheme using an鈥疎ORI鈥痭umber starting GB.

We will not be able to authorise you for the UKC Scheme if you鈥檝e committed any serious or repeated infringements of legislative or regulatory requirements, relevant to your economic activity, in the 3 years before you apply. We鈥檒l check criminal records for any serious criminal offences relating to the economic activity of your business, and the people you provide in your application.

You must have a high level of control of your operations. This must include a system to manage commercial and transport records.

You must be able to comply with the obligations of the scheme.

Obligations of the scheme

Once you鈥檝e been authorised as a carrier, you鈥檒l have a number of obligations you must meet, on an ongoing basis.

You鈥檒l need to establish that parcels that you鈥檙e moving under the UKC Scheme are being sent according to the criteria and conditions of the scheme. This will include:

• complying with weight limits for parcels
• meeting any additional requirements for the very limited range of category 1 goods, like endangered species鈥嬧�� 鈥�
• making sure goods are being to sent to, or from, a private individual

You must collect data and share this with HMRC, within relevant timeframes. This data will be based on information you hold, and that you get from the sender, when they purchase shipment or postage.

Find out more about how to submit your consumer parcel data in the .

You鈥檒l also need to work with, and share data with, HMRC to help manage the risk of parcels moving incorrectly under UKC arrangements. You must follow guidance to make a suspicious activity report to HMRC about movements where you want to report a clear breach of the UKC Scheme.

You must respond to any requests from HMRC for further information. You must also comply with any instructions from HMRC that relate to goods moved under the scheme.

Make an application for the UKC Scheme

Read about how to apply for the UK Carrier Scheme, and the information we鈥檒l expect you to provide when you do.