Storing and shipping alcoholic beverages between European countries requires careful organisation. Businesses must also comply with specific tax regulations, particularly the excise duties applied to these goods.
Nexline Group has reached a new milestone in the development of its warehouse services. Our warehouse now benefits from authorised warehousekeeper status for intra-EU movements under excise duty suspension.
This authorisation allows us to receive, store and dispatch alcoholic beverages under the duty suspension arrangement. All operations must comply with the applicable regulations.
Authorised Warehousekeeper: What Does This Authorisation Mean?
Authorised warehousekeeper status is granted by the competent authorities. It allows approved businesses to handle certain goods subject to excise duty.
Under this arrangement, operators can receive, hold or dispatch the relevant goods without paying excise duty immediately. However, they must meet the regulatory requirements.
For alcoholic beverages, this arrangement applies to products including wine, beer and spirits.
Obtaining this authorisation requires compliance with specific obligations, particularly regarding the monitoring of goods, accompanying documents and stock records.
At Nexline, this new authorisation strengthens our logistics services by allowing us to handle alcoholic beverages moving under excise duty suspension from our warehouse.
For the businesses concerned, it offers the opportunity to organise warehouse storage and movements across Europe with a logistics provider holding the appropriate regulatory authorisation.
Warehouse Storage for Alcoholic Beverages: Nexline’s Capabilities
Organising the storage of alcoholic beverages involves more than finding available warehouse space.
When these goods move under an excise duty suspension arrangement, they must be monitored in accordance with the applicable tax and documentation requirements.
For example, a wine producer shipping goods to a European distributor must consider the authorisation status of the operators involved and the conditions governing the movement of those products.
Thanks to our new authorisation, we can now receive, store and dispatch alcoholic beverages under excise duty suspension, within the scope of our approval.
This capability complements our warehousing and inventory management solutions.
Our role is to organise operations according to the goods involved, their destinations and the applicable regulatory requirements.
For our clients, the objective is to ensure effective logistics coordination between warehouse storage, shipment preparation and the movement of goods.
Excise Duty: How Does the Duty Suspension Arrangement Work?
Excise duties are indirect taxes applied to certain products, including alcoholic beverages.
Under specific conditions, these goods can be stored and moved between authorised operators without excise duty becoming immediately payable.
This is the principle of the excise duty suspension arrangement.
However, suspension must be distinguished from exemption. Duty suspension does not eliminate the tax. It postpones the point at which excise duty becomes payable until an event brings the suspension arrangement to an end, according to the applicable rules.
For intra-EU movements under this arrangement, goods must generally be accompanied by an electronic Administrative Document (e-AD).
These movements are monitored through the European Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS), which records and tracks the movement of goods subject to excise duty.
The consignor prepares the document corresponding to the movement. The consignee must then confirm receipt of the goods within the conditions and deadlines established by the regulations.
This documentation process is essential for regulatory monitoring and helps avoid difficulties associated with non-compliant movements.
Before each shipment, businesses should therefore verify the authorisation status of the operators, the required documentation and the tax conditions applicable at the destination.
Alcohol Logistics: Supporting Shipments Across the EU
Nexline’s new authorisation meets the needs of businesses organising movements of alcoholic beverages between EU Member States.
Depending on your business, you may need to receive goods, store them before dispatch or coordinate several shipments to European partners.
These operations require coordination between inventory management, regulatory obligations and transport arrangements.
At Nexline, we act as a logistics coordinator. We organise transport solutions and work with the different partners involved in your supply chain.
Our expertise in transport flow management allows us to approach each project according to the nature of the goods, their destinations and your operational requirements.
With this new authorisation, we can also integrate the warehousing of alcoholic beverages under excise duty suspension into the logistics solutions offered to the businesses concerned.
Are you looking for a warehouse operated under authorised warehousekeeper approval to organise your alcoholic beverage shipments across Europe?
Contact the Nexline team to discuss your requirements. Together, we can explore warehousing and logistics flow management solutions suited to your business.
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