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  "id": "standards:wallonia-antenna-decree",
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  "slug": "wallonia-stationary-antenna-decree",
  "name": "Wallonia stationary transmitting antenna decree",
  "summary": "Wallonia replaced its 3 V/m per-antenna limit with 9.2 V/m per operator plus an 18.4 V/m cumulative limit in places of stay, and bans public mobile antennas from 20 to 300 GHz.",
  "status": "verified",
  "lastVerified": "2026-08-12",
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    "aliases": [
      "Décret 3 avril 2009",
      "Wallonia 3 V/m",
      "Wallonia 9.2 V/m",
      "Walloon antenna decree"
    ],
    "organization": "Walloon Region (Belgium)",
    "edition": "Decree of 3 April 2009, as amended by the decree of 8 December 2022",
    "jurisdiction": [
      "BE-WAL"
    ],
    "kind": "regulatory",
    "scope": "Applies to permanently mounted transmitting antennas between 100 kHz and 300 GHz whose maximum EIRP exceeds 10 W, assessed in 'places of stay' — dwellings, schools, crèches, hospitals, care homes, regularly occupied workplaces and sport, play and culture spaces — measured 1.5 m above floor or ground level. Roads, pavements, car parks, garages, parks, gardens, balconies and terraces are excluded, as are natural fields, personal devices, medical equipment, air-traffic, defence, emergency-service, broadcast and point-to-point link antennas.",
    "frequencyRange": {
      "minHz": 100000,
      "maxHz": 300000000000
    }
  },
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      "id": "wallonia-decree-2009",
      "title": "Décret du 3 avril 2009 relatif à la protection contre les rayonnements non ionisants générés par des antennes émettrices stationnaires (texte coordonné, art. 4, tel que modifié le 8 décembre 2022)",
      "publisher": "Région wallonne, Moniteur belge / Justel",
      "url": "https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&numac_search=2009201985",
      "year": 2009,
      "kind": "regulation",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-12"
    },
    {
      "id": "wallonia-decree-2022-report",
      "title": "Projet de décret modifiant le décret du 3 avril 2009 — rapport de commission: passage de 3 V/m par antenne à 9,2 V/m par opérateur et norme cumulée de 18,4 V/m",
      "publisher": "Parlement wallon (doc. 1100 (2022-2023))",
      "url": "http://nautilus.parlement-wallon.be/Archives/2022_2023/DECRET/1100_6.pdf",
      "year": 2022,
      "kind": "government",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-12"
    }
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