Deregister your car for export in Hengelo and get the export certificate

Bought a used car in the Netherlands and taking it home? Before it leaves, it is deregistered for export in the Dutch vehicle register. We do this at our RDW-approved export desk at Slachthuisweg 135 in Hengelo. You leave with the export certificate in your name, and the Dutch seller leaves with proof that the registration has stopped.

We are an RDW-approved export company, not the RDW. According to the RDW, a vehicle can be exported at RDW inspection stations, at RDW desks and at approved export companies such as ours. The RDW describes the process in English on its page about exporting a vehicle.

What to bring

Have everything ready before you set off. With complete documents, a standard desk request is usually ready in about 15 minutes.

The yellow plates are handed in at deregistration. If they are lost, new plates have to be made first by an approved number plate manufacturer.

Deregistration at the desk, step by step

1. You show the ID of the person the export is registered to.
2. You hand over the registration card (kentekencard) with its registration code, or the old paper parts: part 1B (tenaamstellingsbewijs) and the transfer certificate (overschrijvingsbewijs).
3. The yellow Dutch plates go on the desk; they are handed in.
4. You give the current mileage and the buyer's full address abroad.
5. We deregister the vehicle for export.
6. One corner of the registration card is cut off, the documents are handed out and you pay, in cash or by bank transfer.

Who gets which document

How the transfer works when you buy from a Dutch seller

In the Netherlands, the car is not first transferred to the foreign buyer's name. The RDW says: make sure the buyer exports the vehicle in his or her own name. So the export certificate is issued in your name and the seller gets the vrijwaringsbewijs. That is the whole transfer, done in one visit to the desk.

Registering the car at home

Keep the original papers safe. Two examples:

• Germany: according to the ADAC, the registration office (Zulassungsstelle) asks for the original foreign vehicle papers, an insurance confirmation (eVB), proof of purchase and proof of a valid HU, the German roadworthiness test, among other things. Without the original foreign papers, registration is nearly impossible.
• Poland: according to gov.pl, a vehicle brought in from abroad is registered within 30 days of entering Poland. You need the foreign registration document (for a Dutch car: the export certificate plus the registration card), proof of ownership, proof that excise duty has been paid and a technical inspection, among other things.

Other countries have their own rules, so check with the registration authority at home before you travel.

Price

The export document costs from €50, including the export certificate, the vrijwaringsbewijs and processing with the RDW. Outside office hours, for postal delivery and for heavy or non-standard vehicles, the price can be higher.

Driving or transporting the car

Driving the car home? Then it needs Dutch export plates and temporary export insurance. After deregistration you may drive on Dutch public roads for 14 days, but not beyond the APK expiry date. If the car goes on a trailer or car transporter, that vehicle usually needs no driving insurance, but the export document is still required.

Can't come in person? Prepare the request online and send the yellow plates by post or courier. We start once they arrive and send the documents back insured and with tracking, also abroad. Postal delivery costs more, and we confirm the price in advance.

Tip: exporters can sometimes reclaim part of the BPM, a Dutch vehicle tax, from the Belastingdienst. We do not offer this as a service; the conditions are on the Belastingdienst page on BPM refunds.

What can go wrong

• ID of the wrong person. It must belong to the person the export is registered to.
• No yellow plates. They have to be handed in, so bring them.
• Incomplete foreign address. We need the buyer's full address abroad.
• Deregistering too early. If the car is driven out, the 14 days start at deregistration, so plan it close to departure.

Questions? Call or WhatsApp us before you come, or send a request via our contact page.