Guidance

Technical specifications for the Excise Movement Control System

Find out about the Excise Movement Control System (EMCS) specifications for software developers.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 2 July 2003
• Last updated: 20 February 2024
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  1. 20 February 2024

     Excise Movement Control System (EMCS) artefacts v18.0 for release 4.1 have been added.

  2. 22 January 2024

     EMCS artefacts v17.0 for release 4.1 has been added.

  3. 21 December 2022

     WSDL and schema third party v16.0 for release 4.0 has been added.

  4. 14 December 2022

     EMCS artefacts v16.0 for release 4.0 has been added.

  5. 2 September 2022

     The page has been updated with guidance to use from 13 February 2023.

  6. 19 August 2021

     The page has been updated with guidance to use from 1 October 2021.

  7. 15 May 2018

     DDNEA version 1.92 has been updated.

  8. 20 February 2018

     EMCS artefacts version 8.0 has been added.

  9. 15 February 2018

     WSDL and schema third party version 8.0, DDNEA version 1.92 and FESS version 3.82 have been added.

  10. 26 January 2016

      EMCS artefacts version 7.0, WSDL and schema third party version 7.0, DDNEA v1.76 and FESS v3.65 added to the page.

  11. 5 June 2015

      The external links to DDNEA v1.71 and FESS v3.61 have been replaced with the attached files.

  12. 2 March 2015

      Links to EMCS FS3.1 artefacts version 6.0 and WSDL and schema.zip third party version 6.0 have been removed from this page.

  13. 2 July 2003

      First published.

Documents

EMCS artefacts v18.0 for release 4.1

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/emcs/HMRC-EMCS-artefacts-v18.0.zip

EMCS artefacts v16.0 for release 4.0

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/emcs/HMRC-EMCS-artefacts-v16.0.zip

WSDL and schema third party v16.0 for release 4.0

ZIP, 405 KB

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DDNEA v3.02 for release 4.0

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FESS v4.01 for release 4.0

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Details

Technical specifications for EMCS software developers.

You can find guidance for the period before 1 October 2021 in the National Archives.