VIES Status by Country
VIES is not one service — it is 27 national systems behind one gateway, and they go down separately. This page samples the European Commission’s own availability feed every 15 minutes and keeps the history.
Right Now
Gateway reachable2 member states not answering: DE, LV.
The figure beside each country is its availability over the last 30 days of our samples.
When Each Country Is Down
Collecting. Weekday and hour-of-day patterns need at least 14 days of samples to mean anything — we have 0. Publishing a heatmap before then would be showing you noise.
What This Does and Does Not Tell You
These readings come from the Commission’s own monitoring, not from an independent probe of each member state. They can lag a country going down, and they describe reachability rather than whether any particular number validates.
When a member state is unavailable, nobody can validate against it — not vatnode, not any other provider, not the tax authority. There is no cache to fall back on, because VIES stores no data of its own: each answer comes from the member state live. What a provider can do is fail honestly, tell you when to retry, and pick the check back up when the country returns. That is what the API does.
For the status of vatnode itself rather than VIES, see System Status.