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Required licenses

Recognized bunker supplier (erkend bunkeraar). This license is needed to be able to supply T1 (non-EU) and T2 (EU) bunkers in Dutch and Belgian ports to sea going vessels
Requires regular cross border supply of bunker fuel. At least 4 times per month
Proper administrative and control procedures to ensure correct, timely and complete recording of all transactions. These processes need to be described in detail and will be audited before the license is granted.
Excise warehouse. This is a license for T2 (EU) bunker fuel. This license is required to load excise goods under full excise duty suspension in The Netherlands and to deliver this as bunker fuel in The Netherlands and Belgium.
Proper administrative and control procedures to ensure correct, timely and complete recording of all transactions. These processes need to be described in detail and will be audited before the license is granted.
A customs bonded warehouse license. This is a license for T1 (non-EU) fuel. This can also be a so called sailing warehouse, i.e. a bunker barge can become a customs bonded warehouse.
Proper administrative and control procedures to ensure correct, timely and complete recording of all transactions. These processes need to be described in detail and will be audited before the license is granted.
It is mandatory to supply fuel loaded in a sailing customs warehouse as bunker fuel in The Netherlands or Belgium under this ARA bunkering procedure. It is not allowed to sell such fuel as a cargo and to deliver it ship-to-ship as cargo or to discharge in a customer’s bonded warehouse on shore.

Point of attention

The Dutch recognized bunker supplier license issued to a Dutch entity does not allow you to load T2 bunker fuel in Belgium.

The Belgian recognized bunker supplier license issued to a Belgian entity does not allow you to load T2 bunker fuel in The Netherlands

If you want to be able to load T2 bunker fuel in both countries, you the recognized bunker supplier license in both member states. That means that you need a legal entity in both countries, or a legal entity in one country having a branch office in the other country.