HMRC has published materials to help stakeholders inform their customers about changes at roll on roll off ports and Eurotunnel if the UK laves the EU without a deal. This includes:

• Information page that summarises the changes for users of roll on roll off ports and Eurotunnel in a no deal scenario, and provides links to detailed guidance elsewhere on GOV.UK.
• A factsheet on new requirements for traders, hauliers and operators at roll on roll off ports and Eurotunnel in a no deal scenario. The same information can be read on GOV.UK as guidance: Moving goods to and from the EU through roll on roll off ports or the Channel Tunnel.
• Flowcharts that show importers and exporters the process flow on day one of a no deal scenario. The information can also be read on GOV.UK as guidance for importers: Trading and moving goods from the EU to the UK if the UK leaves the EU with no deal and guidance for exporters: Trading and moving goods from the UK to the EU if the UK leaves the EU with no deal.

Go to GOV.UK for the full communications pack. 

Border Delivery Group has also published a more detailed supporting document that outlines the requirements of UK Government for goods entering or leaving the UK through roll on roll off ports.

This detailed document sets out the key HMG Departments’ requirements, predominantly HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) / Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) / Food Standards Agency (FSA), Home Office (HO) / Border Force (BF), Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the regimes under which those Departments operate at the borderin a RoRo environment. This document also includes requirements for driver accompanied freight movements using the Channel Tunnel.

This document recognises that technology driven solutions will not be in place for March ’19. Longer term, HMG will be engaging with business to develop these.

This document outlines the requirements of UK Government for movements entering or leaving the UK. It does not contain requirements of other nations, including requirements of the EU. Businesses will also need to be aware of EU countries’ import rules when exporting goods to the EU, and of EU countries’ export rules when importing goods into the UK.

The RoRo environment is key to UK-EU trade. Locations that support RoRo freight movements carry their own unique challenges including short crossing times, the onsite capacity required for physical intervention, and volume of freight flowing through the ports or tunnel. We will continue to work with business to help you meet compliance requirements, and there will be a number of easements in place for RoRo movements for the period following EU Exit, in order to give business more time to prepare for changes to EU-UK trade.

Any additional checks in this environment will be undertaken off line, away from the flow of traffic. If this is possible within the port environment, the checks may be done there. However, where this is not possible additional checks are to be undertaken elsewhere away from the border.

HMRC has plans for delivering a functioning border from Day 1, which can operate without significant new infrastructure and therefore is not placing new requirements on RoRolisted ports to have additional infrastructure in place by the day that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.