AMUREBA business energy studies

• The business must be industrial, agricultural or commercial, or a professional federation, registered in Belgium's Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises (BCE). Sole traders and farmers can qualify. The studied site must be your registered establishment in Wallonia. The decree requires a property right (droit réel) over the studied assets; the official FAQ also accepts a tenant business that registers the site as its establishment. An owner with no registered establishment in a rented-out building cannot apply for that site. An ASBL association can use the business route only if it does not fall under the statutory noncommercial-organisation category (organisations with philanthropic, scientific, technical or educational purposes in energy, environmental protection or tackling social exclusion), is registered as a BCE enterprise and is industrial, agricultural or commercial, or a professional federation.
• Audits concern existing buildings or technical installations. In mixed-use buildings, exclude residential housing units from the business audit or study. Condominium co-ownership associations do not qualify for this business aid.
• The SME category uses the European definition: fewer than 250 employees and annual turnover no more than €50 million or a balance-sheet total no more than €43 million. Prove your SME classification with a business passport or the AMUREBA SME declaration. SMEs in a carbon community use that community's rates and caps.
• A carbon community groups businesses that sign a Convention Carbone with the Walloon Government and commit to energy-efficiency, emissions and renewable-energy objectives. Members and businesses taking steps to join can access the specific support after administrative eligibility validation; qualified internal auditors can undertake eligible member-company work.
• Partial and annual follow-up audits require a prior global audit. Feasibility studies require a prior global, partial or annual follow-up audit and must examine an option in the audit action plan. Project-owner assistance requires a feasibility study of the same project. Performance checking requires project-specific targets and performance indicators previously established in a global or partial audit or feasibility study of the same entity. The required earlier audits and studies must follow AMUREBA methodology. During the transition, older reports following AMURE methodology also qualify if validated by the administration. For businesses, the prerequisite report's final invoice—or report completion if there is no invoice—must be no more than four years old. Global and energy-potential audits have no prior-audit requirement. Feasibility studies of unused process-energy recovery or thermal-energy networks are also exempt.
• Businesses subject to compulsory global auditing outside a carbon community cannot claim for global, partial or annual follow-up audits. For their eligible feasibility, project-owner assistance and performance-check work, they must comply with their compulsory-audit obligation and the audit action plan must identify the project.
• A large business joining a carbon community must first comply with compulsory auditing. Its entry audit is normally self-funded. It can be subsidised if, when joining, an attestation shows its next compulsory-audit deadline falls after the one-year period allowed for submitting its entry audit.
• Business feasibility studies cannot cover equipment producing energy from fossil fuels or action options with a payback period below three years. Use an AMUREBA auditor qualified for the relevant work and follow the AMUREBA methodology.
• Ordinary SME aid is subject to de minimis rules where state-aid rules apply: declare relevant previous aid so the administration can check the allowance. Large businesses and carbon-community SMEs use the general block-exemption regime. Combined subsidies must not exceed the eligible costs; declare other contributions when requesting payment.

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• Apply and wait for the voucher notification before starting the service.[^c31]

Start at the official Chèques Energie portal and choose a recognised service provider with an auditor qualified for your study. Your legal representative first registers personally using eID or itsme, then creates and links the company account as its authorised contact. SMEs register through the Chèques Entreprises branch accessible from the portal; large businesses use Chèques Energie. For carbon-community vouchers, request access from the administration after creating the profile.

The provider can submit the request on your behalf, or you can submit it. Sign the platform-generated agreement and voucher request, approve the provider's offer, and supply the category/VAT evidence, SME proof and de minimis declaration where applicable, plus evidence of required earlier audits or studies.

After the administration accepts the request, pay your contribution within 30 days of its admissibility decision. Wait for the notification confirming receipt and creation of the electronic voucher before any work starts; earlier work is ineligible. Where no contribution is required, wait for the voucher notification.

Complete the service within one year of validation under this voucher procedure; project-owner assistance and representative organisations' carbon-convention coordination have two years. At completion, the provider uploads the invoice, study/audit report and signed activity report. Validate the closing documents on the portal within 15 days; without a response they are treated as validated. The administration then authorises payment to the provider.