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.
Controle en administrative updates edit
Certificates edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Legal updates edit
- 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 edit
Known problems edit
- Downloading the simplified certificate does not work => download the full version
Publicaties edit
- VSDC vzw Review, nr 177, september-okotober 2017, p. 13