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Prevent damage: legal notification requirement

Accidents involving natural gas can have very serious consequences for anyone nearby. Most of these accidents are caused by damage to pipelines during excavation work. For this reason, anyone wishing to carry out works is legally obliged to find out if there is any public utility infrastructure near the site before beginning. You can use the CICC/KLIM website as an easy way to fulfil the obligation to notify most cable and pipeline operators responsible for overhead or subterranean transmission infrastructure for electricity, natural gas, telecommunication signals, water, sewage or chemical products .

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Notify works: quick, easy and free with CICC/KLIM

CICC/KLIM is the Federal Cable and Pipeline Information Checkpoint. The CICC/KLIM website helps you to comply with the requirement to notify Fluxys, the other Fetrapi members (the Belgian federation of pipeline transmission companies), electricity transmission net operator Elia, the other cable and pipeline operators active in the Flemish Region and most other cable and pipeline operators active in the Walloon and Brussels Capital Regions. The website simplifies the administrative process related to the requirement regarding notification of works.


Administrative improvements

Since June 2011, most cable and pipeline operators active in the Walloon and Brussels Capital Regions have joined CICC/KLIM. From now on, contractors, consulting engineers and project owners can ask for location plans of almost all subterranean infrastructure through the CICC/KLIM portal. In this way, CICC/KLIM is evolving into the general portal for location plan requests. This administrative simplification is again a step forward in preventing damage from excavation work and therefore helps utilities to safely operate their infrastructure.

Thanks to the coupling of CICC/KLIM and KLIP, works in the Flemish Region could already be notified with one single notification via the CICC/KLIM portal to all public utility infrastructure operators. KLIP (the cable and pipeline information portal) is an initiative of the Flemish Region to facilitate electronic notification of works carried out in its territory. Any notices posted on KLIP are automatically transmitted to CICC, and any works in the Flemish region announced on CICC are systematically communicated to KLIP.

How does it work?

  • When you want to carry out works, you should check if there are any Fluxys pipelines running nearby. The first time you visit the site, register as a new user. Choose a username and password so you can log in the next time you visit the site. 
  • Enter the town and street. The system will display a map and you should mark out the prospective site. The system will then display the list of operators with infrastructure in the area. 
  • Notify us of your works: the system will send Fluxys an e-mail containing the information you provided. You will also receive a copy of this e-mail. We will then send you all the necessary information.


 

Works in the Flemish Region

  • Notify your works on the CICC website. Since the CICC is now linked to the KLIP website any operators not signed up with CICC will automatically be notified of your plans. No other action is required for you to fulfil your legal notification requirement.
  • You will receive an e-mail from both systems listing the operators affected by your notification. The operators will then send you any information you might need.


 

Works in Wallonia and in the Brussels Capital Region

  • Notify your works through CICC/KLIM. You will immediately notice if cable and pipeline operators that are CICC/KLIM members have infrastructure in the vicinity of your works. The operators involved will subsequently provide you with the necessary information.
  • Take care! Some cable and pipeline operators are not yet registered with CICC/KLIM. Next to your CICC/KLIM notification, always make inquiries with the local administration to fulfil the notification obligation. This way, you will have a complete list of all overhead or subterranean infrastructure in the vicinity of your works.
  • You have already fulfilled your notification obligation for the registered cable and pipeline operators: remove them from the list you received from the local administration. You only need to contact the remaining operators on that list.

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Tips for using search operators

Use "quotation marks" to search for a series of words or a phrase in a specific order.

Boolean operators

You can find a group of words or a phrase by using the link words AND, OR and NOT:
known as Boolean operators, these words are used to combine terms in the search field.

  • AND: All the search terms must be included in the publication. Typing in Apple AND Pear will return publications containing both the word Apple and the word Pear.

     

  • OR :  At least one of the search terms must be included in the publication. Typing in Apple OR Pear will return publications containing either the word Apple or the word Pear or both.

     

  • NOT: The term preceded by NOT must not be included in the publication. Typing in Apple NOT Pear will return publications containing the word Apple but not the word Pear.