The following categories of persons are exempt from the PCR test and rapid test:
Children under 13 years.
persons traveling on behalf of ministries and departments;
persons who give birth on behalf of the Ministry of Health of the Netherlands in connection with the need to perform official duties;
passengers who test positive for PCR if they are asymptomatic or ill but unable to test negative.
This applies in the following cases:
if a person has contracted the coronavirus but is still unable to give a negative test result. To do this, it must provide the following documents:
a positive test for coronavirus performed at least 2 weeks, at most 8 weeks ago;
a positive test result performed 72 hours before boarding;
negative result of the rapid test;
If a person has contracted the coronavirus, but can not give a negative result of the rapid test, he must provide the following documents:
a positive test for coronavirus performed at least 2 weeks, at most 8 weeks ago;
a positive test result performed 72 hours before boarding;
a statement from a doctor confirming that such a person does not have coronavirus and is not a spreader of the disease;
pendulum migrants;
staff of diplomatic and consular posts or international organizations accredited in the Netherlands.
holders of diplomatic passports of foreign countries;
holders of Dutch diplomatic passports;
representatives of foreign governments;
travelers from countries with a low rate of infection (from the so-called “green zone” countries), if they have been in such countries during the last 10 days;
passengers for whom the airport in the Netherlands is not a final stop but who are forced to stop due to force majeure circumstances;
the crew of the aircraft that does not leave the restricted area at the airport and returns on the return flight;
persons working on oil and gas platforms and offshore air farms providing energy services;
The following categories of people are ONLY exempt from the PCR test:
aircraft crew members if they leave the aircraft and the relevant permitted areas;
seafarers (including members of the cruise ship’s crew) who have an extract from the ship’s role / appropriate mark in the document on the urgent need for physical presence on the ship to perform the work. The exemption does not apply to seafarers traveling on commercial yachts;
truck drivers and crew members on container ships carrying ore and coal on petrochemical tankers (fuels and chemicals), crew members of fishing vessels and persons working in the energy sector if they are traveling to carry out their duties.
