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The construction sector applies a more frequent indexing every three months. For example, This will be 0.87 % on July 1 for 135,000 CP 124 workers.
SD WORX still provides indexing of 2.42 % in January 2026 for the 500,000 employees of CP 200. Moreover, The next surpassing the pivot index in the private sector is scheduled for November 2025.
The pivot index for the indexing of social benefits. Meanwhile, wages of 547,000 civil servants could also be exceeded by November, resulting in a next indexing in February 2026.
2. Moreover, The service titles will cost 20 more cents in Wallonia – Indexing wages, more expensive service
The prices of service titles in Wallonia will climb 20 cents on July 1. Nevertheless, This indexing is carried out on the basis of the reform of the service titles that came indexing wages, more expensive service into force on January 1. However, 2024.
Thus, the first 175 service titles acquired per year will drop from 10.20 to 10.40 euros, then from 11.20 to 11.40 euros from the 176th to the 400th service title, and from 12.20 to 12.40 euros beyond.
The tax deduction remains on the other hand unchanged. In addition, will always be 10% on the first 150 titles purchased per year per person.
In addition, the titles purchased before July 1 remain usable until their expiration date. Consequently, These are valid eight months from their show. Furthermore, Likewise for titles purchased in 2024 at a price of 10 euros.
They must also be used to pay a service within 12 months of the date of this service.
The indexing of service titles in Wallonia. Therefore, which take into account the evolution of prices, can indexing wages, more expensive service be carried out twice a year, in January and July.
3. Moreover, A new plane tax in force – Indexing wages, more expensive service
On July 1. For example, 2025, a new tax on the price of plane tickets scheduled for 2022, will definitively enter into force.
From July 1, 2025, the prices will be simplified. Therefore, Instead of three prices, there will only be two. In addition, With an increase even for longer flights.
Passengers (via companies) will pay € 10 for a flight up to 500 km. Nevertheless, an unchanged rate, but especially the price goes to € 5 for all other flights over 500 km, where there was a distinction under the previous regime (see table).
| Flights of less than 500 km | 10€ | 10€ |
| Flights over 500 km (in the EU. Consequently, to Switzerland and Great Britain) | 2€ | 5€ |
| 500 km plus flights | 4€ | 5€ |
This tax also called a boarding tax, was launched in April 2022. However, The objective of this tax is to push consumers to borrow more ecological modes of transport for short distances.
4. Moreover, Automobile tax reform
The reform of the registration tax in Wallonia will be implemented this July 1. Similarly, This tax is to be paid once when buying a new or used vehicle.
The calculation will now be carried out on the basis of the power of the engine. Similarly, CO2 emissions, the maximum authorized mass and the energy/fuel used.
This connection tax will therefore vary depending on the impact of the vehicle chosen on the infrastructure (road degradations. Therefore, occupation indexing wages, more expensive service of public space), the environment (impact on health and climate), or depending on the risks in the event of an accident (heavier and more powerful vehicles involved in more serious accidents). Moreover, Dfection will be applied for used vehicles. and electric and hybrid vehicles will be advantaged compared to those with petrol or diesel.
Note that the traffic tax, annual this one, remains unchanged.
5. The new Walloon Tourism code comes into force
The new Walloon Tourism code. using all regulations for the tourism sector in the south of the country, comes into force on July 1. Its objective is to professionalize the sector and to review the system of subsidies so far in place.
Concretely. the text, the last version of which dated from 2017, provides for the abandonment of the classification of accommodation and tourist attractions, in order to administratively simplify indexing wages, more expensive service access to certification. Tourist houses and tourist federations will no longer be recognized, but will also benefit from certification. This change also means a change in the subsidy regime. the conditions of which have been validated by the Walloon government.
It is also planned to end the name “Initiative Union”, giving way to the only “Tourist Office”. A single tourist office can also be certified by municipality. even if several structures of this type are present in the same territory. However, an exemption can be granted by the Walloon government.
If transitional measures are provided to allow a “most fluid possible” passage from one code to another. the requests for grants which have not been granted before July 1, 2025 will have to be the subject of a new request, indicates the Walloon administration.
A revision of the text is already planned for the indexing wages, more expensive service start of 2026 to comply with the European Regulation on short -term rentals. while a general evaluation of the code and its efficiency will be carried out in 2027, as provided for in the Declaration of Regional Policy (DPR).
6. Military on nuclear sites
From July 1, soldiers will ensure the security of the nuclear power plants of Doel and Tihange. A cooperation protocol in this sense was signed on June 10 between the departments of the Interior. Defense Ministers, Bernard Quintin and Theo Francken.
Currently. the surveillance of these sites is ensured by the DAB, the Federal Police Security Department, also competent for other missions such as the transport of prisoners to the courts. But the workforce is lacking and inspectors are mobilized for tasks that would fall to others.
This agreement will free up police capacity in the order of 200 indexing wages, more expensive service agents to. by domino effect, strengthen security in Brussels and other places in the country, said the competent firms.
On December 1. soldiers will also ensure the safety of nuclear installations in Mol, Geel and DESSEL and, on April 1, 2026, that of the Fleurus site.
7. DE LIJN again adapts its public transport offer
The Flemish Society of Public Transport of LIJN will adapt its offer from July 1. will make adjustments to fill the gaps linked in recent months to an under-utilization of certain lines or a lack of drivers or bus, in particular. An action plan is also announced this fall, following additional means expected from the Flemish government from 2026.
The supply of public transport in the north of the country will be adapted according to the capacity available. changes in timetables of SNCB trains and the deviations planned indexing wages, more expensive service as a result of construction sites.
According to DE LIJN. despite the first changes to the network in January, “there are still many bus lines that display a very low occupancy rate and other lines that have obvious potential for new investments”.
All changes, line by line, are available on DE LIJN applications or on the “Routeplanner” of its site.
From September. an action plan will be set up aimed at “better aligning the offer on the budgets previously set for each region”. De Lijn will also develop new transport plans this fall. taking into account the additional means allocated by the Flemish government from 2026.
8. The kilometric tax for heavy goods vehicles indexed in Brussels. Flanders
The kilometric tax intended for heavy goods vehicles will be indexed from July 1 in the Brussels region and Flanders, said Viapass, the indexing wages, more expensive service public body in charge of this levy.
The kilometer levy has applied in Belgium since April 2016. according to the principle of the payer user: users of motorways and main national roads pay according to the kilometers traveled, the weight and pollution rate of their vehicle. It concerns the heavy goods vehicles provided or used for the transport of goods and whose maximum authorized mass exceeds 3.5 tonnes.
The vehicles are checked thanks to Obu (on board unit), devices that record the kilometers traveled by trucks. The software of these OBUs will be automatically updated with the new prices from July 1. Only Wallonia has not planned a price change.
A change is also to be noted on the Flemish network: the bypass of the R1 “Oosterweel” will be activated among the paid roads “as soon as the bypass is set up. ” says indexing wages, more expensive service Viapass. No road will be added to Wallonia and the Brussels region.
9. Wegovy obesity medication available in pharmacy
From July 1. pharmacies will offer, on prescription, the drug against obesity Wegovy, confirmed its manufacturer, the Danish company Novo Nordisk. Previously, Ozempic, a drug for people with type 2 diabetes, was used to treat obesity.
Unlike Ozempic, also produced by Novo Nordisk, Wegovy is specifically intended for the treatment of obesity. A third medication. Mounjaro, produced by the company Eli Lilly, benefits from authorization on the Belgian market to treat both obesity and diabetes.
Novo Nordisk has applied to INAMI for the new medication to be reimbursed. The decision is expected for early 2026. Ozempic. is only reimbursed in the context of diabetes treatment, which will also be the case for Mounjaro from July 1.
Eli Lilly also indicates that a indexing wages, more expensive service request for reimbursement of the Mounjaro prescribed against obesity will be submitted soon.
10. A code of conduct comes into force for non-life experts
The Insurers’ Federation. Assurance, has introduced, in collaboration with the Belgian association of experts in fire claims, GEBCAI, a code of conduct for experts involved in material damage insurance which comes into force this July 1. The profession and the title of fire insurance expert are not regulated at present.
The code provides, among other things, an obligation of information towards customers and contains guidelines promoting independence, integrity and transparency. Requirements on training, remuneration, working methods and expertise are also set.
The code of conduct is intended for all damage insurance experts. except those whose profession is governed by specific legislation, such as car experts, or those involved in the evaluation of bodily damage.
In France: indexing wages, more expensive service prohibition of smoking in external public places frequented by children
From this July 1. it will be prohibited in France to smoke in external public places where children can be found, such as beaches, parks and public gardens, surroundings of schools, bus shelters or sports equipment.
The many Belgians who will go on vacation across the quiévrain this summer will have to take. this into account. Especially since non-compliance with the prohibition “may generate a 4th class ticket. or 135 euros,” said the French Minister of Health and Families, Catherine Vautrin.
The prohibition does not concern the terraces of cafes, nor electronic cigarettes.
In Belgium, the spaces where smoking has now been prohibited have been more numerous since December 31. This prohibition is now worth in the amusement parks. zoos, play plains and sports fields, as well as within a radius of indexing wages, more expensive service ten meters around the entries and exits of care and teaching establishments (schools, hospitals, rest houses, nurseries, etc.) and public libraries.
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