Cross border authorisations

Publication date 02-09-2025 | Last update 30-10-2025 | Webpage

Within Dutch Customs, the Expertise Centre for Cross-border Authorisations (Expertisecentrum Grensoverschrijdende Vergunningen, ECGOV) coordinates authorisations that involve more than one EU Member State. These are called Cross-border authorisations.

Cross-border authorisations for special procedures

You are eligible for a Cross-border authorisation if you apply for one or more of the following customs procedures in more than one EU Member State:

• Customs warehouse
• Inward processing
• Temporary import
• Outward processing
• End-use

Cross-border authorisations for Entry in the Declarant's Records

You can also apply for a Cross-border authorisation for the declaration procedures ‘Entry in the Declarant's Records for free circulation’ or ‘Entry in the Declarant's Records for placing under a special procedure’.

You can also apply for a Cross-border authorisation for export. However, You can only apply for and use this authorisation as long as the transitional measures of the Customs Union Code are in force.

These authorisations are also called the Single Authorisation for Simplified Procedures (SASP). With a SASP you can file a declaration in one EU Member State for goods that are located in several EU Member States.

Advantages of Cross-border authorisations and SASP

These authorisations and the SASP provide the following benefits:

• Less administrative work
• Clear customs procedures
• One central coordination point for both the customs offices and businesses involved

Applying for a Cross-border authorisation

You can submit your application for Cross-border authorisations to the customs office of the EU Member State where the main records of the businesses are kept or can be accessed (for example, the Netherlands). ECGOV keeps contact with customs authorities in other EU Member States and with customs offices in the Netherlands

If you want to know whether you are eligible for a Cross-border authorisation or if you want general information, please contact ECGOV.

Contact details

Postal address

Douane Rotterdam/kantoor Laan op Zuid/ECGOV
PO Box 3070 
6401 DN Heerlen

Visitor address

Laan op Zuid 45 
3072 DB Rotterdam

The ECGOV is open Monday through Friday from 8.00 to 16.30 hours. You can contact the ECGOV by e-mail: douane.ecgov@douane.nl.