Message exchange customers in exit: apply now for testing of new declarations

Exit declarations following export declarations and under the responsibility of transport companies will be renewed on 24 May 2025. Message declarants are required to test the new exit declaration messages with Customs. The new declaration messages are

• exit notification FI590 (replaces the current IE547 and IE590 messages)
• exit summary declaration FI615 (replaces the current IE615 message)
• re-export notification FI570 (new message).

Testing schedule

You can start applying for this testing from 8 January 2025. Testing with Customs starts in March 2025. When your company has submitted its application for testing, Customs will then contact you to arrange an exact date for the testing.

First, software suppliers and providers of message exchange services test the messages. After that, message exchange customers using their own server certificates will test the declarations. As a rule, messages are tested in the testing service for message exchange.

How do I apply for testing?

Exit message customers can apply for testing in the Authorisations and Decisions Service. You log in to the service using Suomi.fi identification and the mandate code “Applying for customs authorisations”. Message exchange customers must have an EORI number. 

If your previous message exchange decision (SSA) is available in the Authorisations and Decisions Service, you can apply for change. If your previous decision is not available, click on “New application”.

Applying for testing – foreign companies

Companies established outside Finland can also apply for testing in the Authorisations and Decisions Service. This requires that the person representing the company has been granted a Finnish Authenticator ID and that the company is registered in the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s mandate service provided by officials. Upon registration, the person in the company who can grant the required mandates for transactions to company employees is also designated. Read more about identification by foreign companies on the Customs website.

Foreign companies who are not able to use the Authorisations and Decisions Service should contact Customs by email at lupakeskus(at)tulli.fi for using a fallback procedure.

Who are required to do testing?

Software suppliers and service providers must test all test cases with Customs.

If a message exchange customer purchases the required software from a supplier that has already done the testing with Customs, but the customer submits messages from its own server, the customer must carry out a few test cases with Customs. 

If the message exchange customer’s messages are generated and submitted from the server of the provider of message exchange services, the customer is not required to test the declarations. Even in this case, however, the company must submit an application for message exchange to Customs.

More information: UCC@tulli.fi