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Europe
Belgium
Company data from the Belgium business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads BCE/KBO (Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises), BCE Open Data (Belgian register bulk extract), NBB CBSO (National Bank of Belgium – Financial Statements), eJustice (Belgian Official Gazette), Belgian UBO Register (Registre UBO / UBO-register) and Belgian Statutes Database (Fednot STAPOR) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners, subsidiaries and establishments of Belgium companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
- Other key personsYes
- ShareholdersRebuilt from filings
Comes back in Verify.
- Ultimate beneficial ownersYes
Comes back in Verify.
- SubsidiariesYes
Comes back in Verify.
- EstablishmentsYes
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationYes
- FinancialsYes
- UBO extractYes
- Uittreksel KBO / Extrait BCE
- Statuts coordonnés / Gecoördineerde statuten
- Jaarrekening / Comptes annuels
- UBO-register uittreksel
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 2 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises / Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen – official Belgian business register
Daily bulk extract of the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, used for fast company lookups (no officers/capital)
National Bank of Belgium – Central Balance Sheet Office, repository of Belgian annual accounts
eJustice / Moniteur Belge / Belgisch Staatsblad – official gazette publishing Belgian legal notices
Belgian beneficial-ownership register operated by the Federal Public Service Finance, queried via the official UBO portal
Official coordinated-statutes database of the Royal Federation of Belgian Notaries (Fednot), holding the full current articles of association of companies incorporated or amended before a notary since 1 May 2019
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its KBO/BCE number as the id, with countryCode set to BE. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats4
- Search patterns4
- Quirks14
- Legal forms147
- Officer roles42
- Company statuses40
- Documents6
- Example responses8