Colombia Requires New Residential and Commercial Buildings to Wire Parking for EV Charging

Colombia’s Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio (Ministry of Housing, City and Territory) has issued Resolution 0337 of 2026, requiring that new residential and commercial buildings in the country’s larger municipalities be wired to support the future installation of electric-vehicle charging points.

Signed on June 9 by Housing Minister Helga María Rivas and published in the Diario Oficial (Official Gazette) on June 16, the measure sets the minimum technical guidelines that special-category and category 0, 1, 2, and 3 districts and municipalities must use to ensure that buildings whose construction licenses are properly filed include an electrical connection for charging or refueling electric vehicles.

The rule applies to new-construction, expansion, and modification licenses for residential, commercial, or mixed-use projects, and it takes effect only where a municipality has a minimum number of registered electric vehicles in its jurisdiction. Municipal categories follow the classification set by the Contaduría General de la Nación (National Accountant General’s Office). Social-interest and priority-interest housing — Vivienda de Interés Social and Vivienda de Interés Prioritario — are excluded, as are projects that generate no new private parking or that authorize only a single private parking space.

Under the resolution, the builder or license holder must run the electrical connection and supporting infrastructure from the main distribution network — which may include the public grid, solar panels, or battery banks — to a point near the private parking spaces, so that charging equipment can be connected later. The share of parking spaces that must be prepared is calculated from the total private spaces required in each license.

“The builder or holder of the construction license must foresee and provide an electricity connection for charging or refueling electric vehicles that facilitates the later installation of any of the possible charging schemes in the private parking spaces generated.” — Resolution 0337 of 2026, Ministry of Housing, City and Territory

That percentage is set annually by the Ministry of Housing in coordination with the Ministerio de Transporte (Ministry of Transport), drawing on data from the Registro Único Nacional de Tránsito (National Traffic Registry), known as RUNT, and published in the first quarter of each year. The wiring requirement applies only when the calculated percentage for a given jurisdiction reaches 2% or higher.

Installations must comply with the Reglamento Técnico de Instalaciones Eléctricas (Technical Regulation for Electrical Installations), or RETIE, and other technical standards set by the Ministerio de Minas y Energía (Ministry of Mines and Energy). Connections must allow electricity consumption to be metered individually, so that each parking-space owner bears the cost of their own charging. In buildings under a horizontal-property regime, an owner installing a charger in an individual private space need only notify the homeowners’ association in advance and assumes the full cost.

For buildings already licensed before the new guidelines took effect, owners may voluntarily adapt their installations to accommodate charging infrastructure. Curadores Urbanos (Urban Curators) — and, where they do not exist, the local licensing authority — must report the licenses issued under the measure. The Ministry of Housing has up to nine months after the resolution enters into force to establish the reporting mechanism.

The resolution builds on Ley 1964 de 2019 (Law 1964 of 2019), Colombia’s framework for promoting electric and zero-emission vehicles. The country has worked to encourage adoption through measures such as reduced import duties on electric vehicles, and the consumer market has continued to develop since Tesla’s official launch in the country.