Crossroads Bank for Enterprises

The Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (CBE) – French: Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises (BCE), Dutch: Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen (KBO) – registers every enterprise or organisation in Belgium.

Since 1 January 2019 the association law is legally integrated in the unified enterprise and organisation law.

You can either access public data (without authentication) or private data (via eID = electronic identity card).

For your own entity you can update online a limited number of data entities.

For certain official activities (bank, post, enterprises) you might need to download a certificate.

Control and administrative updates

Certificates

Download full extract and certificate
Gratis volmacht voor het ontvangen van een aangetekende zending via: volmachten, een volmacht aanmaken, "Volmacht om aangetekende zendingen af te halen" (via bpost is dit betalend...)

Research

http://www.myenterprise.be/my_enterprise (including downloading official documents)
Privé opzoeking en updates: https://kbo-bce-wi.economie.fgov.be/kbo/privatesearch/index.jsf (with e-ID card)
Publieke opzoeking: http://economie.fgov.be/nl/ondernemingen/KBO/pub/PuS/#naam
Fonetisch zoeken

Wikimedia Belgium legal status

Legal updates

You can only perform legal updates on paper via the ondernemingsrechtbank and subsequent publication in the Staatsblad. It will cost you money, for each update.
Some of the administrative changes you can register via the e-ID.
Download a FULL extract and certificate for e.g. bank, insurance administration, collaboration with other entities
You require to be legal representative to e.g. administer the tax declaration.

Access via Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3376

Known problems

Downloading the simplified certificate does not work => download the full version

Publicaties

VSDC vzw Review, nr 177, september-okotober 2017, p. 13

External links