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I have a valid multiple entry Schengen visa from Netherlands Embassy. It says BNL2 and type of Visa as "C". I went to Netherlands on business visit.

I want to travel to Spain now for tennis training of my daughter. Can I travel to Spain on the same visa now?

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There is no such thing as a "business" and "tourist" visa in the Schengen system. There are only uniform short-stay visas, which is what you have.

Given that the visa is multiple-entry, the point of being multiple entry is that you can use it for any subsequent visit to anywhere in the Schengen area that satisfies the rules for a short visit.

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  • this is not correct. There is the standard Visitor and a Business visa, where by Visitor is mostly included with a Business visa. Depending on the issuer this is an entry in the remark field of the Visa. – Mark Johnson Sep 16 '19 at 16:12
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    @MarkJohnson: Have they changed the rules within the last few months? Please provide a reliable source for that claim. – hmakholm left over Monica Sep 16 '19 at 16:18
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    @MarkJohnson some countries make that entry and others do not. The presence of such an annotation on a multiple-entry visa does not prevent the bearer from using the visa for a different purpose on a subsequent trip. – phoog Sep 16 '19 at 16:23
  • No. Look at the application form. Look at the visa image here https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/146788/95267 Where by the way are your sources? – Mark Johnson Sep 16 '19 at 16:23
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    @MarkJohnson the application form requires the applicant to disclose the purpose of the visit. That does not cause the visa to be of a different category. The annotations you speak of are governed by national law, not the Schengen codes. See Annex 22 linked in my answer. – phoog Sep 16 '19 at 16:26
  • @phoog I have. BNL13 business poupose. inGermany it is a text For Czech C/VB/01/-/--; called commercial. So making the claim that it does not exist is false. – Mark Johnson Sep 16 '19 at 16:52
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    @MarkJohnson sure, but there's nothing in the codes that prevents someone with a multiple-entry visa issued for tourist purposes from later using that visa for a business trip, nor vice versa. I see nothing in the German Aufenthaltsgesetz or Aufenthaltsverordnung that forbids this, either. An annotation in the "comments" section of a visa does not create a new category of visa. – phoog Sep 16 '19 at 17:19
  • @phoog if the visa states visitor, then Business is not permitted. Extra conditions exist for the issuing. There is a reason why the Embassies themselfs use this terminology. The Embassy terminology should not be contradicted here. – Mark Johnson Sep 16 '19 at 17:23
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – phoog Sep 16 '19 at 17:24
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According to Annex 22 of the Handbook for the processing of visa applications and the modification of issued visas, BNL2 is the code for a visa issued by Belgium, the Netherlands, or Luxembourg "ex officio." I don't quite know what that means, however.

Regardless, Henning Makholm's answer is correct: it does not restrict your use of the visa. To impose any restriction, there would be a less cryptic annotation describing the restriction.

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