European Electronic Toll Services in Belgium

Since April 1st 2016, the three regional toll domains for trucks over 3.5 tons have come into effect in Belgium. Starting at that date, all trucks having a Gross Vehicle Weight of over 3.5 tons must be equipped with an On Board Unit (OBU) which is constantly switched on when they are driving the public roads. This OBU will register the kilometers driven and will calculate the toll (Kilometer Charge) that is due. The OBU can be ordered at the service providers of the Kilometer Charge.

Satellic is the national service provider for Belgium. Operating the Viapass system was part of the public offer of the DBFMO contract that was won by Satellic. By this contract, the company didn’t only have to design and build the infrastructure of the toll system (compliance and toll charging), but also had to prefinance it. Since April 2016 Satellic is accordingly a service provider, together with the other accredited service providers.

The kilometer charge is levied by the toll authorities, namely the Brussels-Capital Region, the Flemish Region and the Walloon concessionaire Sofico. These toll authorities, in compliance with the European legislation, offer free access to all prospective suppliers of electronic toll collection in the European Economic Area prior to certain criteria, avoiding any monopoly. This way, the electronic toll in Belgium is built according to the European Electronic Toll System developed by the European authorities.

The service providers will be admitted to the system of electronic toll collection in Belgium when they comply with all the technical specifications of the three regional toll domains as stated in the so-called “EETS Domain Statements”. These include the requirements for accuracy of measurement of the OBUs installed in the trucks on toll roads and communication with the control system.

EETS Domain Statement

The specifications of the requirements for new service providers are specified in the EETS domain statements, which are the official documents in which the technical and other requirements are published by Viapass.

You can find the EETS domain statements for the three regions here. For the Liefkenshoektunnel, you can find the statement here.

EETS register

The EETS register, in which the countries of the European Economic Area need to record the current status of their toll areas can be found here.

Accreditation

A number of European service providers are already accredited and can therefore offer their toll collection services in the Belgian toll domains. If you are interested in being registered as an EETS provider or by being accredited as an EETS provider in Belgium, please contact Viapass (contact@viapass.be). The following companies are already accredited as EETS providers in Belgium: Axxès, Satellic, Telepass, Toll4Europe, TotalEnergies Marketing Services & W.A.G. Payment Solutions.