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

• My Enterprise (inloggen met eID)
• KBO: http://economie.fgov.be/nl/ondernemingen/KBO
• http://economie.fgov.be/nl/ondernemingen/KBO/entreprises/PrS
• http://economie.fgov.be/nl/modules/onlineservice/KBO/bce_private_search_odi.jsp
• Public Search API

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

Wikimedia Belgium legal status

• WMBE Kruispuntbank
• WMBE publicaties Staatsblad

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

See also

• Ondernemingsrechtbank
• Belgisch Staatsblad
• Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO)
• Legal obligations

External links

• My Enterprise