2766992 - KBA - Changes required within GTS following Brexit

If the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified, the deadline for agreeing the terms of the UK's future relationship with the EU will move to 31 December 2020.

A no deal scenario, also called "hard" Brexit, is one where the UK leaves the EU and becomes a third country at 11pm GMT on 29 March 2019 without a Withdrawal Agreement and framework for a future relationship in place between the UK and the EU.

This KBA provides general guidelines about the changes to be implemented for SAP GTS standard functionality as a result of this. And this document shall be continually updated as further changes are implemented by SAP as notes are released.

Current timeline for change implementation

The timeline is highly dependent on the political decisions made in London and Brussels.

• Unitl February 2019 Collection and Analysis of Information 
• End of Feburary 2019 Decision on roll out and implementation
• 15th March 2019 Implementation and release of corrections
• Following the EU summit on March 21, 2019 in Brussels Brexit has been postponed to at least April 12, 2019
• Following the EU summit on April 10, 2019, in Brussels, Brexit has been postponed to at least October 31, 2019
• On December 20, 2019, the UK House of Commons adopted the withdrawal agreement with 353 votes to 243 against.
  Therefore, the United Kingdom will leave the EU (Brexit) on February 1, 2020. 
  The withdrawal agreement provides for a transitional period up to December 31, 2020, in which there will be no changes from the customs perspective.
  After the withdrawal, negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) will take place.
  Changes to the current timetable are subject to future political decisions.

Once the details of the agreement have been finalized, the relevant note(s) shall be released to customers, and details of these notes shall be updated below