Subsidies
Who receives public money, from whom and for what? Five registers, each with its own amount, never added together.
114,719 recipients in the Flemish register5 registers 775,221 entries 11-11-2026 last updated
Federal transfers
FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal governmentAmount as published, per year (the year of the transfer)
From 2023 to 2025. These figures cover 80.6% of the register's entries for those years. The rest goes to natural persons or stands in the register without a usable enterprise number.
Largest recipients
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ELECTRABEL Subsidie aan NV ELECTRABEL in het kader van de verlenging van de de kerncentrales Doel 4 en Tihange 3264.1m 3 entries
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BE-NUC CFD balancing costs BENUC EMSA39.8m 1 entry
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ELIA ASSET Largest of 3 programmes: Subsidie aan de transportnetbeheerder van elektriciteit voor de realisatie van natuur inclusief design van het energie eiland.14.3m 3 entries
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Luminus Largest of 2 programmes: Subsidie onderzoekprogramma Small Modular Reactors4.8m 2 entries
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John Cockerill Hydrogen Belgium Exploitatietoelagen aan private ondernemingen in kader verbetering milieu824,100 1 entry
Per year
- 15.9m 2023 2023, Amount as published 15,854,222, 5 recipients
- 75.0m 2024 2024, Amount as published 75,028,070, 8 recipients
- 234.9m 2025 2025, Amount as published 234,868,070, 6 recipients
The year is the year of the transfer.
Who pays
Budget allocations
Department
Kind of transfer
Conditions and calls are not in the register. The register itself: FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government (opens the source's website)
By sector
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The sector is the main activity in NACE-BEL 2025 per the KBO.
By region
A recipient counts in the province of its registered office.
Kind of organisation
The kind follows from the legal form in the KBO.
Method and sources
The register (2023 to 2025) holds 23,591 entries. 19,021 of them are shown. These are the recipients with an enterprise number that are legal entities. Not shown: 3,944 without an enterprise number, 626 with a number no longer (or never) in the open KBO data.
BOSA states no currency with its amounts; they are shown as published. Most transfers are filed under an establishment unit and linked to its enterprise.
The register at its source: FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government (opens the source's website)
Flemish subsidies (Flemish government, subsidy register): Awarded and paid, per the year the register states the support for. Awarded and paid are two different amounts and are never added. Corrections appear as negative amounts in the register.
Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Wallonia-Brussels Federation, subsidy cadastre): Paid, per the year of the payment. The cadastre carries enterprise numbers only from 2021; payments from 2019 and 2020 cannot be linked to any company.
Federal transfers (FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government): Amount as published, per the year of the transfer. BOSA states no currency with its amounts; they are shown as published. Most transfers are filed under an establishment unit and linked to its enterprise.
EU budget (European Commission, Financial Transparency System): Attributed share, per the budget year of the commitment. The register does not separate grants from procurement. Where the Commission publishes no split per beneficiary, the entry counts without an amount.
EU research (European Commission, CORDIS): EU contribution, per the project's start year. The contribution covers the whole project, dated by its start year; it is paid out over the project's life.
The registers do not count the same money. They hold awarded and paid subsidies, payments, invoiced transfers, attributed shares of EU commitments and contributions to research projects. So each register stands apart, never a total across registers.
Only legal entities with an enterprise number appear in the lists. Natural persons and sole traders are not shown, even where the register states their number. They do count in the register's coverage. Sector, province and kind of organisation come from the KBO.
The figures are as the register publishes them and are updated every night. Checked adds them up per recipient, year and programme, within one register. Last updated on 11-11-2026.