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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.
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