The installation adaptation certificates or CAI's will expire.

SEPTEMBER 2022 UPDATE

NEW EXTENSION ESTABLISHED TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE ISSUING CAI`S

Dear friends, there has been some good news in the form of an extended deadline for this provision:

In principle it was scheduled to be until September 2022, according to the provisions of Decree Law 15/2020, of September 10, of the Presidency of the Government, on urgent measures to promote the primary, energy, tourism and territorial sectors of the Canary Islands.

Nevertheless, with the publication of "LAW 5/2021, of December 21, on urgent measures to promote the primary, energy, tourism and territorial sectors of the Canary Islands.", approved in the BOC No. 265. Monday, December 27, 2021, In its fourth additional provision, it indicates that the administrative regularization process has a term of validity of “2 years” from the entry into force of said law.

Therefore, the procedure must remain in force until December 2023.

This type of adaptation certificates will not be allowed as of December 2023, since in 2002 The low voltage electro-technical regulation came into force, and enabled this type of adaptation certificates for:

• Make reforms
• Small power increases.
• Rehabilitation of supply.
• Chang the name 
• Reviews for sales.

Therefore, it was a very useful tool for those homes that had been made prior to 2002, and that they wanted to make regularizations of any kind.

On many occasions, with this simple adaptation document or bulletin, users did not have to completely modify the installation to adapt it to the regulation that came into force as of 2002.

This meant that the industry council accepted that an old installation that met the parameters of the DECREE 161/2006, of November 8 and that was normally a simple review of four or five parameters, they could regularize their status. 

Infinity of houses that had been interrupted the supply that had a contract to cancel, could be rehabilitated if I complied with the installation with the minimum security required in the 1972 regulation, and under which their house had been made.

This regulation already adapted, which is now 20 years old, will be terminated in September 2022 according to a provision  DECREE law 15/2020, of September 10. Now we are going to see what this change means in practice.

There you have a Little summary for those who do not want to read the complete decree: (the date of September 11, 2022 has been extended to December 2023)

C.I's (Installation Certificates) can only be made from December 20233

Once this time period has expired, If we want to make any changes to the installation, if the electricity is cut off, if the contract is canceled, if we want to sell the house and the notary does not require a review bulletin or the original bulletin, we will have to make an installation certificate.

The installation certificate implies that our installation must meet the requirements of the new regulation which came into force in 2002. This would not be an inconvenience for any house built from this period onwards, but it will be for old or local houses.

The installation certificate is subject to a regulation that obliges old installations to carry out profound electrical reforms and in most cases masonry works

To give just one example, the connection would have to be changed, the electrical panel completely modified, new lines and new sockets added. 

On many occasions, the facilities being old, the pipes do not accept the introduction of new lines, so it is usually common to have to break the walls or the floor to install new ducts to accommodate the new installation.

If you have an old installation, and you want to save all this money and inconvenience, it is better that you do a CAI preventively, before its validity expires

contact with us if you want more information or that we visit you. You can check what the protocol for making a certificate in our YouTube channel, or in this link