Age verification

Trade associations call on petrol stations to keep up ID checks on tobacco

De brancheverenigingen vragen tankstations zich aan het nieuwe beleid te houden. Foto: Wouter de Wilde / ANP

Trade associations Bovag, Vemobin, Nove and Drive hope that petrol station employees will “hang on a little longer” to checking the identification of all tobacco buyers. They acknowledge that the rising aggression is the opposite of the aim of the introduced measure, but hope that customers will get used to it, reports ANP.

From 1 October, 100 per cent age verification applies to all customers buying tobacco at the station, introduced by the industry associations. Legally, this is only required for young people, but this was already causing increasing aggression. However, since the introduction of the blanket check, anger has only been mounting, which Mobility Energy previously reported and Drive has now confirmed following coverage by RTV Oost.

“This is the opposite of what we wanted, but we would still like to get to the point where it becomes normal,” says Drive chairman Martin van Eijk. “If unfortunately it turns out that it can’t be done, we are also not going to say it has to be done at any cost.”

According to the ANP, Drive hears from some of the affiliated petrol and charging stations that the policy cannot be sustained. “Then we ask them to still do so. But if it really can’t be done, it’s not worth inciting more aggression. Then we understand if they stop doing it all the time. Now it’s also getting into the news and then it will get worse,” says Van Eijk.

A Bovag spokesperson added: “At the moment, we are in a transition phase where this ID requirement has to become the new normal. That takes some getting used to for everyone and we think it is important to keep the peace.”

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This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

Author: Nina Koelewijn

Source: MobilityEnergy.com

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