{"id":1221,"date":"2025-10-27T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/new-sirs-rules-prohibiting-subcontracting\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:13:07","slug":"new-sirs-rules-prohibiting-subcontracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/new-sirs-rules-prohibiting-subcontracting\/","title":{"rendered":"New SIRS rules prohibiting subcontracting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>On <strong>July 24, 2025<\/strong>, the <strong>Social Information and Research Service (SIRS<\/strong> ) published new guidelines on the<strong>prohibition of subcontracting work<\/strong>.<br\/>These clarifications are intended to provide a better framework for practices in the <strong>construction sector<\/strong>, and to avoid arrangements where a subcontractor is limited to a purely administrative role.<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd39 Background and objective of the measure<\/h3>\n\n<p>As of <strong>January 1, 2025<\/strong>, any <strong>subcontractor<\/strong> awarded a works contract may no longer <strong>entrust all the work to another company<\/strong>.<br\/>Subcontractors must <strong>play an active role in the execution of the work<\/strong>, and may not limit themselves to coordinating or supervising the site.<\/p>\n\n<p>The aim of this measure is to step up the <strong>fight against cascading subcontracting<\/strong> and to ensure that each party involved makes a genuine contribution to the work.<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd39 Total subcontracting: now prohibited<\/h3>\n\n<p>This prohibition only applies to <strong>work entrusted entirely to a third party<\/strong>.<br\/>A subcontractor remains in compliance with the law if it <strong>carries out<\/strong> even a small <strong>part of the work itself<\/strong>.<br\/>On the other hand, the <strong>delivery of materials alone<\/strong> does not constitute sufficient participation.<\/p>\n\n<p>In particular, <strong>SIRS<\/strong> will check:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the <strong>presence of personnel<\/strong> assigned to the work,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>possession of the<\/strong> necessary <strong>equipment and technical resources<\/strong>,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and <strong>actual<\/strong> construction activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd39 Simple site coordination is no longer enough<\/h3>\n\n<p>Companies that limit themselves to <strong>planning, organizing or communicating<\/strong> between the parties, without actually carrying out any work, will be considered to be <strong>in breach of the law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to the guidelines, coordination tasks include :<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>site planning,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>organization and progress monitoring,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>communication between stakeholders,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>risk and deadline management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd39 Things to remember<\/h3>\n\n<p>To <strong>comply with the regulations<\/strong>, a subcontractor must <strong>carry out a specific part of the work himself<\/strong>.<br\/>Neither the <strong>simple supply of materials<\/strong>, nor the <strong>administrative or technical management of the worksite<\/strong> are sufficient to meet this obligation.<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd39 Read more<\/h3>\n\n<p>The complete SIRS guidelines can be consulted here:<br\/>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siod.belgie.be\/fr\/flipbook-wrapper\/secteur-de-la-construction-version-24072025\">SIRS &#8211; Construction sector, version of 24\/07\/2025<\/a><br\/>(See <strong>point 19<\/strong>, <em>&#8220;In-house inspection&#8221;).<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 24, 2025, the Social Information and Research Service (SIRS ) published new guidelines on theprohibition of subcontracting work.These clarifications are intended to provide a better framework for practices in the construction sector, and to avoid arrangements where a subcontractor is limited to a purely administrative role. \ud83d\udd39 Background and objective of the measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}