System maintenance to disrupt customs operations: Government sources reported on October 5 that a system maintenance will disrupt customs operations in the Netherlands, between 08:00 and 16:00 local time on October 12. The maintenance reportedly will affect the Consulting Tariff information service. Delays in processing are to be expected during the maintenance.

PostNL wants to inform the IPC members that the issue with the MRD-POD at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is solved since 6th of August 2025.

The designated operator of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, PostNL, wishes to inform the designated operators of other Union member countries that, in the light of the new import requirements introduced by the latest US executive order dated 30 July 2025, it is temporarily discontinuing the acceptance of open and closed transit items containing goods destined for the United States of America while it investigates alternatives. This measure will take effect on 22 August 2025, in accordance with article 17-013 of the Convention Regulations. Any transit or misrouted items containing goods that are destined for the United States and arrive at PostNL’s international mail processing centres will be returned to origin.

The designated operator of The Netherlands, PostNL, asks us to inform other countries and their designated operators that since 16:06 CET on 4th of August, PostNL is not receiving a data from other designated operators. Due to this issue, delays of EMSEVT from PostNL are to be expected.

Weather conditions disrupt flight operations at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport: Media sources report on August 5 that severe weather conditions disrupted flight operations at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (IATA: AMS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, on August 4. According to sources, 406 flights were delayed and 28 cancelled. Further disruptions are to be expected until weather conditions improve.

PostNL wants to inform the IPC members that we had some hick-ups in moving our airport facility at Amsterdam Schiphol airport since 27th of June 2025. This concerns the RFID gates activation and MRD installation. For the RFID-gates, reads are missed for our airport location between 27th of June and 2nd of July. Since 3rd of July the RFID-data is exchanged as usual. The MRD is not fully installed yet and did not register any MRD data since 27th of June up to now. We are working in cooperation with IPC to have the MRD up-and-running asap . We will inform you once everything is working back again as usual.