Outline of Business Activities: NL vs. NL/BE Bunkering

The application of the “Zeevaartbunkerprocedure 2019” is driven by the objective of enabling bunkering activities in both Belgium and the Netherlands. If bunkering activities were to take place exclusively in the Netherlands, a different procedure would apply.

As this distinction may be relevant from a sustainability perspective—which in the Netherlands is linked to the release for consumption from a tax warehouse—the procedure for bunkering without application of the “Zeevaartbunkerprocedure 2019” is described first below.

Bunkering in the Netherlands without application of the  “Zeevaartbunkerprocedure 2019”