Instructions issued by France to overcome difficulties related to definitive AES

As announced at this Headquarters on October 20, 2025, and as stated in the Export Declarations Web Services guide AESThe entry of the final period for AES export declarations will take place at 23:59:59 on 14/12/2025 (time UTC). Given the difficulties experienced by French operators in migrating to the final period on time, the Directorate General of Customs and Indirect Taxes (DGDDI) has issued a statement with instructions to follow for submitting indirect export declarations in France. According to these instructions, operators would have to follow alternatives to the "fallback" procedure. These alternatives are either to present exports followed by transit (T1) in France (preferred alternative), or, subsidiarily for cases of diversion, invalidate the export declaration filed in France and file an export declaration in the Member State of departure of the goods. This temporary solution aims to address the inability to communicate with the AES system until January 19, 2026.