EU Transit Log

[st599]

Owners may be required to keep a transit log onboard which must be stamped when leaving a country and when entering a new country via a port of entry.

Boat owners need to carry VAT proof onboard post-Brexit - Yachting Monthly

That could make sailing along the coast from say The Netherlands to France interesting.

 

[Yellow Ballad]

I have a VAT exemption certificate from the EEC 1992 requirement but I have also asked my club if they can provide a letter stating the boat was in the UK on the 31st of December, which it sounds like they're happy to do. In theory the boat could have been since been outside of the UK for the three years and lost it's VAT status.

Better to do it now then in 2-3 years time but hopefully there won't be too much of a fuss for visiting boats?!

 

[st599]

I'm more concerned about getting a Transit Log Stamp in to Netherlands, then out of Netherlands, into Belgium, out of Belgium in to France then out of France.

 

[RobbieW]

I'm more concerned about getting a Transit Log Stamp in to Netherlands, then out of Netherlands, into Belgium, out of Belgium in to France then out of France.

My reading of the article and understanding of the situation is that youd need a stamp on entering the EU VAT area and another on leaving. Not each individual country within the area

 

[st599]

The article says : Owners may be required to keep a transit log onboard which must be stamped when leaving a country and when entering a new country via a port of entry.

Will be interesting to see how this manifests.

 

[Tranona]

Suggest everybody reads the last paragraph of the article. like many things to do with Brexit, decisions have been made and "rules" established with little thought as to how they would be implemented. pretty standard EU fare, although the UK is also guilty, partly because of the pressure to get the job done. The rules for third party boats into the EU and people into Schengen have been in place for a long time, but as the EU says it is up to individual states to implement them. Not surprising implementation (or not) has been highly variable. Have a look on the Liveaboard forum for Chris Robb's thread on how it is likely to operate in Greece to get a flavour and then imagine how that would work in say France or the Netherlands.

 

[RobbieW]

Thinking about @st599 's concerns and reading @Tranona 's comment; each country having its own transit log would be a right PITA for Brits visiting

 

[Tranona]

Thinking about @st599 's concerns and reading @Tranona 's comment; each country having its own transit log would be a right PITA for Brits visiting

I think the Greek Transit Log system is unique to Greece and the underlying requirement predates the EU (Greeks do like to keep track of boats and provide work for port officials) but has been developed to cope with the EU prompted tax on boats (part of the austerity programme) and now the consequences of Brexit because of the number of UK and other third country owned and registered boats in the country. I suspect that the TA requirements will be light touch for short term visitors (as it has been for Channel Islands based boats) but the Schengen rules more rigorously applied given the centrality of freedom of movement to the EU.