Getting your car into Morocco

Hello. Posted up on our website a few tips about car paperwork here: http://www.rustyrhinos.com/moroccanrally2012/index.html and on our blog http://moroccan-rally.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/crossing-border-into-morocco-with.html but thought I would post it seperately in the forum too for anyone that might be considering Morocco...

Driving into Morocco is a fairly straightforward affair compared to some of the countries we've had to drive into before. There are some essentials that you can prepare before entering Morocco. First off, you must have your original car registration document (V5C), sometimes referred to locally as the vehicle passport. Next you'll need a completed D16 Ter form. This is normally a 3 part carbon copy form, however the Moroccan customs have provided an electronic version of this form that can be completed online and printed before you go to Morocco.

You can get to the D16 Ter form at the Moroccan customs site here: http://www.douane.gov.ma/web/guest/d16ter/#http://www.douane.gov.ma/d16ter/formAT.jsf

Below is some guidance on completing the form should you have to do this as well as a partly completed form for Red, our Land Rover.



Bureau d'entrée: Office of entry, in our case this is BAB-SEBTA as we enter from Ceuta, Spain in North Africa.

Prénom and Nom: Given name and family name (surname).

Identifiant: You have 4 options here:

1. CIN(Nationaux): Moroccan National
2. Etrangers résidant au Maroc: Non-Moroccan resident in Morocco
3. Etrangers non résidant ayant déjà visité le Maroc: Non-Moroccan visiting Morocco having been to Morocco before
4. Etrangers en première visite au Maro: Non-Moroccan visiting Morocco for the first time

Immatriculation: Vehicle registration (license plate) number

Marque: Vehicle manufacturer (make), this will be Rover for us.

Type: Vehicle model, Land Rover 88 in our case.

Genre: Vehicle type.

Pays: Your country of residence, in our case Grande Bretagne.

Date de 1ère mise en circulation: Date that your vehicle was first registered.

Numéro de châssis: Your vehicle identity number (VIN), which you can find on your car, on your car registration document (or V5C in the UK).

Once you've completed the form, click on Imprimer, this will generate a single PDF document with 3 sections in it. The 1st section is yours to keep, the 2nd section (Exemplaire service 2 (Apurement)) you'll use on exit from Morocco and the 3rd section (Exemplaire service 1 (Entrée)) is required on entry to Morocco at the office of entry that you have specified in the Bureau d'entrée field.

Nice one, sure that will come in handy for some on here.

Tres bien.

No problem

Very usefull - thanks

Make sure your V5 is correct too

When crossing from ceuta I found real problems cos my V5 still said ambulance. Now ambulance is a commercial vehicle so not allowed to cross from Ceuta. We had to get it inspected by 2 different custom officials before they would agree it was a camping-car

This is really helpful thank you. What should you do if the vehicle is not registered on your name? The lease company is the resgsitered owner of the Hilux. Can I ask them to provide me with the necessary paperwork as they do when we take the hilux to Europe?

I can only base on my own limited experience which is of two trips into Morocco. Once they tied in the name with the V5 and the other time they didn't bother. I guess it depends who is on at the time, and if they do spot that the names on the passport do not much the V5 the mood of the official is in that particular time of day might depend on how much persuasion and waiting about it creates! Someone might correct me of course