# Belgium

Company data from the Belgium business register, through the Topograph API.

## Overview

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.

## Coverage

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).

| Datapoint | Returned | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |  |
| Legal representatives | Yes |  |
| Other key persons | Yes |  |
| Shareholders | Rebuilt from filings | Comes back in Verify. |
| Ultimate beneficial owners | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Subsidiaries | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Establishments | Yes |  |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | Yes |
| Financials | Yes |
| UBO extract | Yes |

### Documents, as the register names them

- Uittreksel KBO / Extrait BCE
- Statuts coordonnés / Gecoördineerde statuten
- Jaarrekening / Comptes annuels
- UBO-register uittreksel

### Speed

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.

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[BCE/KBO (Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises)](https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be)**: Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises / Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen – official Belgian business register
- **[BCE Open Data (Belgian register bulk extract)](https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbo-open-data)**: Daily bulk extract of the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, used for fast company lookups (no officers/capital)
- **[NBB CBSO (National Bank of Belgium – Financial Statements)](https://consult.cbso.nbb.be)**: National Bank of Belgium – Central Balance Sheet Office, repository of Belgian annual accounts
- **[eJustice (Belgian Official Gazette)](https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be)**: eJustice / Moniteur Belge / Belgisch Staatsblad – official gazette publishing Belgian legal notices
- **[Belgian UBO Register (Registre UBO / UBO-register)](https://eservices.minfin.fgov.be/ubo)**: Belgian beneficial-ownership register operated by the Federal Public Service Finance, queried via the official UBO portal
- **[Belgian Statutes Database (Fednot STAPOR)](https://statuten.notaris.be)**: 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)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

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 Belgium 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.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 4 |
| Search patterns | 4 |
| Quirks | 14 |
| Legal forms | 147 |
| Officer roles | 42 |
| Company statuses | 40 |
| Documents | 6 |
| Example responses | 8 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fbe
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fbe

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/be.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

## Belgium business register guide

[Belgium business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-register-in-belgium): how the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/be