Red diesel to stay?

Yes good news. What is going to happen when we visit Belgium Holland and France are they going to be able to do anything to us
 
MartynG said:
The use of red diesel for boat propulsion in those countries remains illegal . In that respect a change to white diesel would have been a better outcome.
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Aguy i know has a fuel inlet on deck marcked diesel with a 2 metre tube down to the bilge blancked off and full of white diesel , he then changed the proper diesel caps for pump out ones simples.
 
seastoke said:
Aguy i know has a fuel inlet on deck marcked diesel with a 2 metre tube down to the bilge blancked off and full of white diesel , he then changed the proper diesel caps for pump out ones simples.
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Lets hope the authorities don't drain off a sample from the fuel filter rather the trying to dip the tank from the filler cap.
If the white diesel tube is full on arrival in Belgium might that not look suspicious ?
Deception is possibly risking prosecution for a more serious offence.
 
MartynG said:
Lets hope the authorities don't drain off a sample from the fuel filter rather the trying to dip the tank from the filler cap.
If the white diesel tube is full on arrival in Belgium might that not look suspicious ?
Deception is possibly risking prosecution for a more serious offence.
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Its not me , may i add.
 
From the RYA web site

1990 Istanbul Convention
The UK is a contracting party to the 1990 Istanbul Convention. The Istanbul Convention was intended to facilitate temporary admission into signatory states by harmonising Customs procedures and, in particular, it allows a means of transport (together with the fuel contained in the normal fuel tanks of that means of transport) to be imported into a signatory state temporarily without payment of import duties and taxes and without application of import prohibitions or restrictions. Now that the UK has left the EU the 1990 Istanbul Convention should govern the movement of recreational vessels between the UK and the EU.
In order to rely on the Convention, a means of transport for private use must be registered in a territory other than that of temporary admission, in the name of a person established or resident in a territory other than that of temporary admission, and be imported and used by persons resident in such a territory. For these purposes, the EU27 are considered to be a single territory.
This means that UK recreational boaters may now be able to temporarily import fuel, that is bought legally elsewhere, into the EU provided:
  • the fuel is in the normal tanks of the vessel;
  • the boat is registered in the UK or another non-EU state;
  • the registered owner is established or resident in the UK or another non-EU state; and
  • the boat is imported and used by persons resident in the UK or another non-EU state.
Visiting EU Member States with marked ‘red’ diesel
Although every individual member of the EU27 should recognise and apply the Istanbul Convention to qualifying vessels, there is no guarantee that they all will (or will do so consistently).
The Istanbul Convention sets out the rules that the signatory states are supposed to implement but it does not give individuals any right of action should a particular signatory state decline to implement part or all of the Convention – only another signatory state has that capacity
 
oldgit said:
Good news for Thames boaters who judging by the number of boats claiming that 100% of the fuel they bunker is for for heating purposes only..
It would appear that they never use any for propulsion and that there is perpetual winter on the Thames. :)
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Not just heating - The engine or genny may be run to create electricity using fuel purchased at the domestic rate .
 
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