On 6 October, the Consultative Committee took note of the final text of the update of the Belgian National Energy and Climate Plan, after having been informed by the NCC-ENOVER, and instructed that these texts be communicated to the European Commission.
You can find the text here:
Final update of the Belgian National Energy and Climate Plan 2021–2030 (NECP 2025)
On 22 November 2023, Belgium's various governments reached an agreement at the Joint Consultation Committee to submit the draft updated NECP (2023) to the European Commission.
The draft NECP update is structured according to the table of contents as demanded by the EU governance regulation 2018/1999 (see annex 1 of the regulation) and the European Commission guidelines.
As stated in the disclaimer at the beginning of the document, the NECP consists of:
common texts validated by the three regions and the federal State and binding on all of them;
texts specific to the regions or federal State, under the titles 'Federal State', 'Flemish Region', 'Walloon Region' and 'Brussels-Capital Region', which are binding only on the concerned entity, and are under their respective responsibility.
The latter texts come from the (air,) climate and energy plans or contributions of the various entity regions and the federal State to the NECP:
On 21 April 2023 and 27 October 2023, the federal government took note of the update of the Federal Energy and Climate Plan (FECP 2023).
On 12 May 2023, the Flemish government approved the updated draft Flemish Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030 (Vlaams Energie- en Klimaatplan or VEKP).
On 21 March 2023, the Walloon government approved the Air, Climate and Energy Plan 2030.
On 27 April 2023, the Brussels government approved the Regional Air, Climate and Energy Plan.
6 October 2025: Consultative Committee takes note of the submission of the final 2025 update
25 March 2024: Regional consultation – Penta & North Sea Energy Cooperation
5 February 2024: Public consultation on the NECP
22 November 2023: Agreement consultation committee on submission draft update 2023
31 December 2019: The final plan was submitted to the European Commission
18 September 2019: Launch of this website with the publication of the results
4 September 2019: Regional consultation of the draft NECP with the countries from the Pentalateral Energy Forum (Benelux, Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland)
15 July 2019: 60,910 respondents participated in the national online survey
4 June 2019: Launch of a national public inquiry
31 December 2018: Regional consultation of the draft NECP with the countries from the Pentalateral Energy Forum (Benelux, Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland)
