Subject: Re: Status on IEUK?<br/>
Date: May 17, 2002 @ 07:52<br/>
Author: pepijnh (&quot;pepijnh&quot; &lt;pepijnh@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-285097440">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Bramwell Hayes &lt;bramwellhayes@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; When I visited the land border near Monaghan two years<br/>
&gt; ago, the remains of an old checkpoint could be seen,<br/>
&gt; but there was no security and the border was only<br/>
&gt; demarcated by county boundary signs, thus looking like<br/>
&gt; an internal border. There was one garage in which the<br/>
&gt; petrol pumps were in the Republic (therefore paying<br/>
&gt; lower taxes) but could only be reached from the UK (?a<br/>
&gt; pene-enclave).<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>But could the petrol also be delivered only through the UK? <br/>
<br/>
The thing reminds me of the situation that was explained to us by the <br/>
owner of the _Biergrens_, the beer shop straddling the border in <br/>
Baarle. He was telling us that not only is he theoretically required <br/>
to store the beer from his Belgian suppliers on Belgian soil and the <br/>
beer from his Dutch suppliers on Dutch soil (which he doesn&#39;t do, if <br/>
I recall correctly), but also he got into trouble with the Belgian <br/>
and Dutch customs inspections when a lorry driver was unloading his <br/>
payload on the wrong side of the border, thereby <br/>
technically &#39;exporting&#39; the alcohol, for which (import) taxes are due.<br/>
<br/>
I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if the petrol station has a back entrance <br/>
from the Republic for the suppliers. <br/>
<br/>
-Pepijn</div>