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Acknowledgement vehicles in company stock

If you trade in vehicles that are registered in your name, you are responsible for: Liability insurance (WA-verzekering) Periodic motor vehicle tests (APK) Motor vehicle tax (MRB) Do you not want...

Collecting and processing car tyres

Do you produce or import car tyres? You must keep to the rules for the collection and processing of used car tyres. As a manufacturer or importer, you are responsible for the tyres until and including...

Collecting and processing scrap vehicles

Do you manufacture or import cars? Then you are responsible or jointly responsible for how end-of-life vehicles (scrap cars) are processed into waste by you or a car dismantling company. You must...

Collecting batteries and accumulators

Do you produce, import, or sell (products containing) batteries or accumulators in the Netherlands? Your business may have extended producer responsibility. This means you are responsible for managing...

Energy labels

In the Netherlands, a number of product categories, cars, and buildings must carry an energy label. The energy label includes information about the product's energy consumption. It also states the...

Attention: amendment

Environmental regulations on the use of solvents

Do you use or release solvents (volatile organic compounds) in your industrial business activities? If so, you must comply with environmental regulations. If your business consumes or emits more than...

Inspecting LPG systems

Do you want to install or inspect gas systems (LPG) in motor vehicles? You must apply for recognition (Erkenning Gasinstallatie) to the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW). Applying for recognition...

Mandatory speed limiter for company cars and buses

Do you have a company car or a bus? Then your vehicle may need to have a speed limiter. This depends on the weight of your vehicle and on the date which it was take into first use. The Netherlands...

Performing periodic technical inspections motor vehicles (APK)

Do you want to perform periodic technical inspections of motor vehicles (PTI, Algemene Periodieke Keuring, APK) in the Netherlands? Your company must be recognised by the Netherlands Vehicle Authority...

Protect soil from pollution with hard or liquid-proof floor

Do you work with polluting liquid or other substances that can get into the soil or groundwater? If so, you must take measures that protect the soil from pollution. Floors to protect the soil You...

Registering a vehicle in customer's name

Do you sell a new vehicle or a vehicle from your company’s stock? You must put the registration in the new owner’s name (transfer). You can do this yourself, if your company is authorised to do so....

Second-hand dealer register

Do you trade in second-hand or unregulated goods? In the Netherlands, traders in second-hand or unregulated goods must report to the municipality, and are legally obliged to keep a second-hand dealer...

Attention: amendment

Smart tachograph

New trucks, passenger-carrying vehicles, and smaller professional vehicles must have a smart tachograph on board. Smart tachographs (in Dutch) register information, including driving and rest times,...

Attention: amendment

Vehicle export

Do you want to export a vehicle from the Netherlands? You must register the vehicle for export with the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW). Registering a vehicle for export You can register a vehicle...

Vehicle registration plates

Do you want to manufacture vehicle registration plates (kentekenplaten, licence plates)? Or do you want to issue registration plates to vehicle owners? You must be a recognised manufacturer. And you...

Vehicle type approval and vehicle parts

Do you mass produce vehicles or vehicle parts, or are you authorised to import and to sell them in the Netherlands? You need to obtain a type approval (typegoedkeuring). Type approval confirms that an...

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