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On 1 January 2021 current relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom will come to an end, whether a partnership agreement is concluded or not.

Starting from 1 January 2021 the United Kingdom (UK) will be treated as a non-EU country for customs purposes.

Parcels from and to the United Kingdom will have to follow the same procedure as that applied to third countries (non-EU countries), such as Canada or the United States. This means that these parcels must be accompanied by a customs form, which is necessary to be processed through customs.

For more information, we advise you to contact the Brexit Call Centre of the General Administration of Customs & Excise Duties. This contact centre is available from Monday to Friday from 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. at the phone number 02 575 55 55.

Once Brexit enters into force, i.e. on 1 January 2021, the European roaming rules will no longer apply to the United Kingdom.

This means that when making a call, sending SMS messages or surfing the Internet from the United Kingdom (to an EU country), consumer prices may be much higher than today given that operators will be allowed to apply a roaming surcharge.

The discounts are laid down in Article 38 of the Annex the Act of 13 June 2005 on electronic communications.

Several hypotheses are summarised in the table below:

* NB: if you pay the subscription fee and the communications to two different operators, only the operator providing the communications grants a maximum discount of € 11.5 on the calls.

If you think you meet the conditions to get the social tariff, you can submit your request to the operator of your choice (without attachments), via one of the contacts points.

If it cannot be automatically established that you effectively meet the conditions, you will receive, after your request to the operator of your choice, a letter from BIPT asking you to send certain documents necessary for the administrative handling to the operator.

No, a PLB is related to a person not to a vessel.

However, you have to register your PLB on the website https://www.406registration.com/

A form is available; please follow the instructions correctly, particularly the requests for documents that are necessary to process your application.

The authorisation is free.

Complete applications are processed in the chronological order of their arrival.

Contacting us is unnecessary; if your file is incomplete, we will ask you to provide us with the missing elements. As soon as you file is processed, you will receive the authorisation via ordinary mail.

Ground stations also need to be covered by an authorisation

We do not issue ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) codes: these are four-letter codes for geographic classification which are assigned to each airport around the world.

International Civil Aviation Organization codes

Firstly this 

You can decide to have your number ported immediately or to have it done on a date you agree upon with the new operator.  

Setting a date can be important if you are still bound by a contract or if there are instalments left on a device. Without an agreement on the porting date you risk having to pay a termination fee to your old operator. 

One working day  

Following a visit to your new operator’s store or website or before the porting date set, the new operator checks with the old operator whether everything is technically ready to port the number.  

After the technical validation the number porting takes one working day at the most.  

What if there is a delay?  

If the porting exceeds one working day compared to the date set, you are entitled to a compensation of 3 euros per day of delay. Sometimes the amount is set to 5 euros per day of delay. 

Always ask your new operator for this compensation. Even though you know or suspect that the problem lies with the old operator.  

Do this within 6 months following the number porting. 

In the case of prepaid cards a compensation can be given in the form of extra call credit.  

Congratulations! You will receive your certificate via ordinary mail.

Radio amateur clubs registered with BIPT (in order of payment) can apply for a special call sign to mark an event under the following terms and restrictions:

• The event is associated with the club’s life (special anniversary…);
• The club participates in an event (e.g. open house in a school or a radio amateur club has a stand);
• The event has to do with radio (e.g. Marconi’s birthday);
• A club is not allowed to ask more than two special call signs per calendar year;
• The special call sign cannot be used during contests;
• For the anniversary of the club or association, the call sign can be granted for a maximum period of one year;
• The call signs can have all the prefixes (ON, OP, OQ, OR, OS, OT);
• They are made of a prefix, a figure, and a series of characters ending with a letter;
• Call signs using the ON prefix (or the special prefix assigned to all the radio amateurs - see below) can not have a single digit if they have a suffix of 1, 2 or 3 letters;
• The special call signs cannot be used in the club members’ homes.

Recognised associations (UBA, VRA, UFRC) can ask a special prefix on the occasion of a particular event and for all the radio amateurs. In that case any radio amateur who wishes to do so can replace the ON in his/her call sign by the special prefix. This authorisation does not apply to short call signs.

The tariffs for these special call signs are mentioned in the Annex 1 of the Royal Decree of 18 December 2009 on private radio communications and user rights for fixed networks and trunk networks. 

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.