Liability in trade

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The traders which belong to one of the categories mentioned below need to have a third-party liability insurance in order to respect the law of 20 July 1979.

Traders with compulsory liability

• dance halls, discos and all the public places for dancing
• restaurants, chip shops and other bars, when the total surface open to the public is at least 50 m²
• hotels and motels of a capacity of at least 4 rooms and being able to welcome at least 10 customers
• stores for retailing with premises that have a surface of at least 1000 m²
• youth hostels
• artistic cabarets and circuses
• cinemas and theatres
• casinos
• cultural centres
• multi-purpose halls, in particular for shows, public meetings and sports events
• sporting rooms
• shooting galleries
• stadiums
• trade fairs and showrooms
• closed fairground installations of which the total surface open to the public is at least 100m²
• inflatable structures
• shopping malls with an accessible total surface of at least 1000 m²
• amusement parks
• hospitals and health care centres
• service flats, residential complexes which propose services and rest homes for the elderly
• buildings for education and vocational trainings
• office blocks of which the total surface open to the public is at least 500 m²
• stations, all the installations of metros and airports
• buildings of worship of which the total surface open to the public is at least 1000 m²
• legal courts

More information: service of Legal Affairs of the City of Brussels: 02 279 20 20