• FAQ

    Congratulations! You were given a form at the end of your exam. Your first operator’s certificate is included in the price of the exam.

    Now, you will have to choose a call sign.

    If you have your own equipment, you will also need a station authorisation for it.

    Attention: you must first have your operator’s certificate and/or authorisation before being allowed to emit and/or possess radio equipment.

  • FAQ

    Congratulations! You will receive your certificate via ordinary mail.

  • FAQ

    You must send us your station authorisation back so that we can deactivate it and so that your vessel can be deleted from international databases.

    Please send it to:

    BIPT
    Maritime Department
    Boulevard du Roi Albert II 32 box 10 
    1000 Brussels

  • FAQ

    Whoever unexpectedly acquires a station, without being personally authorised to possess or use it, has, from the moment he/she comes into possession of the station, a maximum period of sixty days to apply for a holder’s and operator’s authorisation for that radio station, or only one possession authorisation.

  • FAQ

    Parcel at the front door

    • A deliverer is allowed to leave a parcel at the front door. However, this poses a risk to the seller, because something can happen to the parcel before the buyer gets hold of it. Sometimes sellers request prior consent to leave the parcel at the door. If you give that consent, it makes it harder for you to prove afterwards that the seller is responsible for the theft at the front door, for instance. 

    Parcel delivered to the neighbours

    • If nothing has been arranged for delivery to the neighbours and the web shop delivers to the neighbours by way of the courier, this is at the web shop’s risk. If prior consent has been given the seller may assume that the neighbours were designated by the buyer to accept the parcel.

    Note in the letterbox

  • FAQ

    Yes, it is. An application form is available. The aeronautical authorisation is charged: € 23,07 to pay on the account of BIPT: IBAN BE68 6791 7078 1634 (BIC : PCHQBEBB), with the reference “Aeronautical authorisation”.

    You must enclose:

    • the copy of the proof of the payment of € 23,07;
    • In case of an application on behalf of a company or association, a copy of the articles of association.

    Please note that you can not use that authorisation on the ground. You must always use the call sign of the aircraft containing the portable radio. Your radio must bear the CE marking and must be accompanied by the EU declaration of conformity. It must also operate on 8.33 kHz.

  • FAQ

    Yes, provided that the mobile service suffers an interruption of at least 8 consecutive hours at the known billing address.

    When a mobile antenna is down, that does not automatically mean that there was no coverage during at least 8 hours. For a big part of the territory is covered by more than one antenna.

    In case of a prepaid card, the end-user has to request the compensation himself.

  • FAQ

    Yes, however, you must apply for a special authorisation. You will find more information on the page Professional users – Mobile networks

  • FAQ

    Both. An aeronautical authorisation is required when airborne but a maritime authorisation is required when on water. Furthermore, it can use a PLB: a device which can be activated by the user in case of emergency. That type of device is not subject to an authorisation in Belgium, provided that it is registered by the user via www.406registration.com.

  • FAQ

    We will contact you via ordinary mail before the expiration date.

    Make sure to always report any change in your contact details to us (according to regulation your data must always be up to date).

    However, if BIPT has not contacted you two weeks before the expiration date, please contact us as soon as possible

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