Local resident card

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Who can obtain a local resident card?

The local resident card is delivered to every physical person having established his main home along a public road or in a sector planned for that purpose on the territory of the City of Brussels.

Where to park with a local resident card?

The holder of a local resident card is only authorized to park within the limits of the sector which is assigned to him:

• list of the streets by sector (XLS, 0,21MB)
• plan of sectors (PDF, 2,75MB)

How to obtain a local resident card?

• via the electronic counter
• at the counter of the Police records service of the City of Brussels

Documents to be supplied

• ID card
• certificate of registration of the vehicle
• a mandate (DOC, 0,03MB) and the copy of the ID card if a third person comes to collect the local resident card

Supplementary documents to be supplied for a company vehicle:

• the certificate of the company saying that the vehicle is used privately as well as professionally
• the statuses of the company or the extract of the Belgian Official Journal if the owner of the vehicle is a manager or an administrator of the company

Supplementary documents to be supplied for a vehicle of personal leasing:

• leasing contract

Supplementary documents to be supplied for a vehicle of a third person:

• a copy of the insurance policy on which it is mentioned that the interested is the first driver or the usual driver of the vehicle

Supplementary documents to be supplied for the European civil servants exempted from registration:

• the certificate of the protocol service of the Foreign Affairs service with the name, first name, address, household

Vehicles registered abroad

For vehicles registered abroad, only the categories of following persons can benefit from a local resident card:

• category 1: the vehicle which a foreign professional person rents to a person for a maximal duration of 6 months, not renewable
• category 2: every physical person who uses the vehicle for the exercise of his profession for a foreign owner to whom this person is bound by a contract of employment
• category 3: the members of the European Commission, the European Parliament or associated institutions, as well as the members of the other international institutions in Belgium
• category 4: the vehicle of which the owner is considered as a person temporarily absent (the fact of leaving the Belgian territory for a duration from 3 months to 1 year and for whom a declaration to the competent service of the municipality was introduced beforehand) and who has his parking in Belgium during no more than six months continuously

Remark: for any further information, consult the royal order and the municipal regulation (PDF, 0,01MB) on parking.

Waiting period

• electronic counter: +/- 5 working days
• at the counter: at once

Validity

• 1 year

Costs

• 10 euro

Where to make the demand of a local resident card?

• Demography Department
  Police record
  Local resident card
  Administrative centre
  1st floor
  1000 Brussels
  [plan]
  Tel. : 02 279 62 50
  Fax : 02 279 62 69
  casierjudiciaire.dem@brucity.be
  Opening hours : Monday to Wednesday from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, Thursday from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm, Friday from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, the distribution of tickets takes place from 8:30 am till half an hour before the closure
  Telephone hours : from Monday till Friday from 8:30 am till 4 pm
  

or

• Liaison office in Laeken
  Population service
  Boulevard Emile Bockstael 246
  1020 Brussels (Laeken)
  [plan]
  Tel. : 02 279 37 00
  Fax : 02 279 37 08
  DemographieLaeken@brucity.be
  Opening hours : from Monday till Friday from 8:30 am till noon and from 1:30 pm till 3:30 pm except on Thursday afternoon, attention: the distribution of tickets takes place from 8:30 am to 11:30 am and from 1:30 pm to 3 pm (except on Thursday)
  Telephone hours : from Monday till Friday from 8:30 am till noon and from 1:30 pm till 3:30 pm except on Thursday afternoon