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Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019

posted by martyb on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-to-stash-some-cash-and-buy-extra-popcorn dept.

mrpg writes:

Six of the eight border IT systems viewed as critical for a no-deal Brexit are at risk of failure, compounded by their reliance on each other and the fact delivery partners aren't ready.

[...] The report, prepared before Prime Minister Theresa May said she would allow Parliament to vote on a possible delay, treats 29 March 2019 as Brexit day – but it is clear some of the issues won't be resolved by a delay of just weeks.

The NAO said that six of the eight IT systems ranked as most critical for no deal by the cross-government Border Delivery Group are "at risk of not being delivered to time and to acceptable quality".

These include Defra's Import of Products, Animals, Food and Feed System (IPAFFS) and Automatic Licence Verification System (ALVS), both of which have their IT components listed as amber-red, and HMRC's CHIEF (Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight), which is ranked as amber.

Source: Three-quarters of crucial border IT systems at risk of failure? Bah, it's not like Brexit is *looks at watch* err... next[*] month

[*] Linked story was dated 2019-02-28, so it's this month. --Ed.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 04 2019, @11:59PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 04 2019, @11:59PM (#810055) Journal

    I can't think, offhand, of any world-dominating powers that have had two bites of the cherry (feel free to give examples)

    China, Egypt, and India have historically. France had a couple chances in recent centuries (king of France almost inherited the crown of Spain at the beginning of the 18th century), and a century later under Napoleon.

    My view is that a better goal would be a strong economic and democratic system which encourages entrepreneurship and business creation and growth. The EU did some things right, but it's really a lost opportunity right now.