Electrical compliance in Brussels: from your inspection report to your certificate

The deadline depends on the age of your installation:

• Installation commissioned after 1 October 1981: 12 months from the date of the inspection.
• Installation older than 1 October 1981: 18 months.

In the case of a sale, the 18-month deadline starts from the signature of the notarial deed. An extension can be requested from the FPS Economy in the case of the 12-month deadline.

Yes. A negative report does not block the sale. It remains legally valid and you must hand it over to the buyer.

For an installation older than 1 October 1981, the buyer takes over responsibility for the work and has their own deadline to put the installation in order. The seller must provide the report and inform the buyer of the deadline that applies.

Many owners still prefer to settle compliance before putting the property on the market: a property with a positive certificate negotiates better.

It depends on the scale of the job. Count one to two days for a light compliance job (adding an earth connection, replacing a residual current device, correcting a few points), and several weeks for the complete rewiring of a large house.

On top of that comes the wait for a re-inspection appointment. We take care of booking it as soon as the work is finished, with nothing at all for you to arrange.

• A missing or inadequate earth connection.
• No 30 mA residual current device.
• Missing or out-of-date single-line and position diagrams.
• Safety zones in the bathroom not respected.
• Damaged, undersized or non-compliant wiring.
• An old or overloaded consumer unit.

Each of these appears in your report with an RGIE reference that does not always help you understand what it actually means. We decoded them one by one in our guide to reading an inspection report (in French).

Yes, and it is a point that is often overlooked. Without those two documents the inspection is automatically negative, even if your installation is technically flawless.

We draw up or update these diagrams as part of our compliance work.

For a home, the certificate of compliance is valid for 25 years, provided no significant change is made to the installation in the meantime.

A new inspection becomes mandatory if you replace your consumer unit, increase your supply capacity, or add solar panels, a home battery or an EV charge point.

• Before a new installation is put into service.
• After a significant change to an existing installation.
• When a home is sold.
• Periodically, every 25 years for domestic installations.
• After a capacity upgrade or the addition of solar panels, a battery or an EV charge point.

We work in every municipality of three areas:

• The Brussels-Capital Region, all 19 municipalities.
• Walloon Brabant, with a particularly strong presence in Braine-l'Alleud: Waterloo, Nivelles, Wavre, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Lasne, Rixensart, Genappe, Ittre, Braine-le-Château.
• Flemish Brabant, from the Brussels periphery to Leuven: Sint-Genesius-Rode, Halle, Dilbeek, Overijse, Tervuren, Zaventem, Vilvoorde, Grimbergen.

For a large project we are happy to travel beyond these three provinces. The simplest thing is to talk about it.