Green Card extension: 14 more days of Dutch export insurance, online

Your temporary export insurance runs for 14 days, and sometimes things take longer than that. Perhaps you lived in Enschede while studying or working at the University of Twente or Saxion, drove your car to your new home country, and the registration there is dragging on. Or you bought a car in Enschede and are still waiting for an appointment at the registration office in Germany. You can then extend the export insurance by 14 days, with a new Green Card.

We are not an insurer ourselves. The extension runs through our insurance partner and needs the insurer's approval. Everything can be done online, even if you have already left the country.

What a new Green Card means for you

The Green Card is an international certificate of insurance. Abroad, it shows that the vehicle has at least the third-party liability cover that the country requires by law. Third-party liability (WA in Dutch) covers damage you cause to others with the vehicle, not damage to your own car. The Council of Bureaux has more on the system.

With an extension you receive a new insurance certificate with a new Green Card for the next 14 days. If you apply in good time, the new cover can follow on from the current one. Read the new card and the policy carefully: they state in which countries and for which driver you are insured. This may differ from your first card.

Green Card already expired? Extending is still possible, for example if the vehicle's APK or a technical inspection has not run out, provided the insurer agrees. In the meantime there is no cover, and nobody may drive the vehicle.

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When an extension can help

Typical reasons:

• Registration takes longer. In your destination country you are still waiting for an inspection, an appointment at the registration office or documents.
• Transport is delayed. The car arrives later than planned.
• Your buyer needs more time. They are running behind schedule.

How to extend online, step by step

1. Send your request. WhatsApp us, email us or use the form below.
2. Check and approval. We assess your request, ask the insurer to approve it and then let you know the outcome and the price.
3. Payment. At that point, and not before, you make a bank transfer. If the insurer says no, you pay nothing.
4. New documents by email. We email you the new insurance certificate with its Green Card, including a PDF, usually within 15 minutes after you have paid, wherever you are.

You can also extend in person at our desk, Slachthuisweg 135 in Hengelo; there you usually leave with the Green Card document within 15 minutes.

Details we need from you

• the registration number (kenteken);
• a photo or PDF of your current Green Card or policy;
• the end date of your current cover;
• which country the vehicle is in now, and where it is heading;
• the details of the policyholder and the driver.

For the photo or PDF, the form has its own WhatsApp button; email works too, via the address on our contact page.

Insured elsewhere? That is possible too

Were your white plates and insurance arranged by another company? We can still extend your cover by 14 days with follow-on insurance through our insurance partner, subject to the insurer's approval.

What an extension costs

Each 14-day extension costs from €120, including VAT where applicable; a heavy or non-standard vehicle can cost more. Need even more time? Further blocks of 14 days can follow, each one only if the insurer agrees.

What an extension does not do

Read this carefully if Dutch rules are new to you:

• Only the insurance is extended, not the export registration. According to the RDW, you may drive on Dutch public roads for 14 days after deregistration, and never beyond the expiry date of the APK, the Dutch roadworthiness test. The extension does not change that. Our page on Dutch export plates explains this rule.
• Car still in the Netherlands when the 14 days are up? It then has to travel on a trailer or car transporter.
• Abroad, the local rules apply. How a Dutch export registration is treated there varies from country to country. Check what applies, for example in Germany, before you drive on after the first 14 days. The RDW points this out (in Dutch) on its page about special registration certificates.
• Apply on time where possible. Then there is no gap in your cover. Without valid insurance, the vehicle must not be driven.

Request your new Green Card

In the form below, the extension is already selected. In your message, add the end date of your current cover and where the car is now.