To compliment webinars which ran in August, September and October, Defra will be running a further series of webinars and new in-depth demonstration sessions focusing on actions that businesses will need to complete to move goods under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme. This includes how to create a general certificate, generating a Common Health Entry Document, and signing up to relevant systems.

6 additional webinars have been scheduled on the end-to-end process for Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme, groupage, and mixed load consignments. These sessions will take place from 5 September 2023 to 31 October 2023, will be approx. 1 hour 30 minutes in length, and will include a presentation and Q&A section.

The sessions are intended to provide opportunities to understand the overall process for the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme and will also be supplemented with deep dive sessions on using NIRMS to go into more detail.

Demonstration Sessions

A series of weekly sessions will run from 29 August 2023 to 31 October 2023. The sessions will be approximately 1 hour in length and will cover 4 topic areas, providing a step-by-step run through the various systems that your business will have to interact with to move your goods under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme. At each session, policy and area specialists will be available to answer any questions.

There will be 4 topic area sessions covering:

Registering for the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme TRACES Registration

Document Creation – Creating General Certificates (GCs)

Document Creation – Creating GCs and Common Heath Entry Documents (CHEDs)

Following the webinars and demonstration sessions, a FAQs document and slide packs will be made available. FAQ documents will continue to be updated and will be issued over the upcoming months.

When will the sessions take place?

The sessions will take place via Microsoft Teams on the following dates and times:

Webinars:

05/09/2023 – 09:30 – 11:00

15/09/2023 – 09:30 – 11:00

26/09/2023 – 09:30 – 11:00

03/10/2023 – 09:30 – 11:00

17/10/2023 – 09:30 – 11:00

31/10/2023 – 09:30 – 11:00

Demonstration Sessions:

Registering to the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme:

29/08/23 – 09:30 – 10:30

31/08/23 – 11:30 – 12:30

04/09/23 – 14:30 – 15:30

12/09/23 – 09:00 – 10:00

20/09/23 – 15:00 – 16:00

28/09/23 – 12:30 – 13:30

02/10/23 – 15:00 – 16:00

12/10/23 – 10:00 – 11:00

17/10/23 – 14:30 – 15:30

25/10/23 – 09:30 – 10:30

TRACES Registration:

18/09/23 – 09:30 – 10:30

21/09/23 – 14:00 – 15:00

25/09/23 – 15:30 – 16:30

29/09/23 – 11:00 – 12:00

02/10/23 – 11:30 – 12:30

05/10/23 – 12:00 – 13:00

10/10/23 – 15:30 – 16:30

18/10/23 – 10:30 – 11:30

24/10/23 – 14:00 – 15:00

30/10/23 – 15:30 – 16:30

Document Creation – Creating GCs (Sessions are approximately 45 minutes)

08/09/23 – 10:00 – 10:45

11/09/23 – 14:00 – 14:45

15/09/23 – 09:30 – 10:15

Document Creation – Creating GCs and CHEDs

19/09/23 – 09:30 – 10:30

27/09/23 – 14:00 – 15:00

29/09/23 – 15:00 – 16:00

02/10/23 – 09:00 – 10:00

04/10/23 – 11:30 – 12:30

06/10/23 – 15:00 – 16:00

11/10/23 – 10:00 – 11:00

20/10/23 – 15:00 – 16:00

26/10/23 – 11:00 – 12:00

31/10/23 – 09:00 – 10:00

How to join the Webinars and Demonstration Sessions

You can register and book a place for the webinars or demonstration sessions by referring to the Defra Windsor Framework events page on Eventbrite here and click on the links within the listings. The links provide more information on the topic areas covered.