Information for foreign excavators

Are you an excavator who performs mechanical excavation work on Dutch territory?
If so, you need to be aware of the applicable legislation in the Netherlands, namely the Underground Cables and Pipelines Information Exchange Act (Wet Informatie-uitwisseling Ondergrondse Netten (WION)), which aims to prevent damage to underground cables and pipelines.

Prevent damage to cables and pipelines
Excavators must notify Kadaster-KLIC before starting excavation work. Instructions for submitting a notification are presented below in the section ‘Submitting a Notification of Excavation Work’.

Your notification will be passed on to the network operators who have underground cables or pipelines in the area where you intend to excavate. These operators will send the relevant information about their cables or pipelines to Kadaster electronically, which then compiles the information and emails you a link to download the relevant information for your excavation site.

You must consult this information when undertaking excavation work to avoid damaging cables and pipelines. The maps must be available at the excavation site.

Submitting a Notification of Excavation Work

You have two options:

• If you will be submitting notifications of excavation work frequently in future, you must first register as an excavator. When you have registered, you will receive a login code and password for My Kadaster (Mijn Kadaster) / Klic-online, where you can enter notifications of excavation work yourself.
• If you are submitting a once-only notification of excavation work, you can use the notification form for private individuals

In both cases, we advise you to contact the KLIC Customer Contact Centre by phone on +31 88 183 22 00 or by email klic@kadaster.nl.

Kadaster charges a fee for submitting a notification of excavation work.