Do I need permission from my Community of Owners to install an electric vehicle charging point in my garage?

Do I need permission from my Community of Owners to install an electric vehicle charging point in my garage?

The first thing that may come to mind if we are thinking of an electric vehicle recharging facility in a community garage is whether or not we need some kind of permission from the community of building owners to carry out this facility through common. The issue is that Law 19/2009 in its third article that modifies Law 49/1960 on horizontal property states that:

"If it were a question of installing a recharging point for electric vehicles for private use in the building's parking lot, provided that it is located in an individual parking space, only prior communication will be required in the community that its installation will proceed. The cost of this installation will be assumed entirely by the direct interested party(s).

Therefore, in an electric vehicle recharging facility in a community garage, we do not need the consent of the community or that any type of vote be carried out on this issue, we will have to communicate our intentions to the administrator or president of the community. .

The ideal scheme to carry out the installation for charging an electric vehicle in a community garage individually would be number 2 indicated in the ITC-BT 52 of the Electrotechnical Regulation for low voltage, in which we would have a common main meter for the home and the point of recharging, where the recharging circuit would start from the output terminals of the meter in the same way as the individual derivation that will feed the general control and protection panel of the home.

This scheme is ideal for most users as it can include housing and a low recharging point in the same contract.
Another thing is if for the installation it is necessary to do work on the common elements of the garage. In that case, given that the entire Community is affected, it must authorize it by a simple majority of the owners, which in turn represents the majority of the participation quotas.
As of Royal Decree 1053/2014, newly constructed buildings must have a main conduit, so that it is possible to carry out derivations to the recharging stations located in the parking spaces.
However, most of today's buildings, having been built before 2014, will not have the necessary electrical infrastructure and therefore, it will be necessary to carry out works on the community garage complex.

For all this, one of the most appropriate options to carry out these infrastructures and that everyone is happy, would be the installation of a central pipeline from the meter panel which has all the future individual recharging circuits in an orderly manner. , paid for by the community of owners, since the use in the immediate future may be of all users of the garage, then each of the individual owners of the parking spaces, and at their own cost, carry out the rest of the installation (wiring, piping from the main panel, protection panel and recharging point itself).

This part of the work that does concern the entire community of owners, the main channeling, would require its authorization, so it would have to be taken to a meeting and voted on.