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Activities of notaries

NACE 69102 · division 69 Legal and accounting
Current registrations 2,259division 69: 42,701
Starters, 12 months 3,366division 69 · 7.9 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Employment (FTE) 27,341division 69 · financial year 2025
Median age 8.8 yearsdivision 69 · Belgium 10.7 years

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 69 · financial year 2025 · 21,271 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
53.5%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€43,809
Belgium €16,557
Median equity
€112,798
Belgium €98,554
Loss-making
9.6%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
3.1%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
34.1%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.04
Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 69

2,594 employers
Median
€66,800
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€53,700 to €79,700
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
37 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €65,400 €51,600 to €78,800 2,010
10 to 49 FTE €71,500 €60,100 to €82,100 534
50 to 249 FTE €72,000 €65,100 to €79,700 39

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 69
Number
112
Half have run longer than
28 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
38%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,424 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 1 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

Spread across the country

by region and province · 2,115 of 2,259 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Flanders 1,323 · 62.6%
  • Wallonia 606 · 28.7%
  • Brussels 186 · 8.8%
fewer moremax 357

Largest employers

NACE division 69 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Deloitte Accountancy, Tax & Legal ServicesZaventem 706 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Moore Finance & TaxBrussels 674 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 PricewaterhouseCoopers BedrijfsrevisorenMachelen (Brab.) 648 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Ernst en Young BedrijfsrevisorenMachelen (Brab.) 536 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 SBB BEDRIJFSDIENSTENLeuven 534 FTEfinancial year 2025

18 of the 26,959 companies in NACE division 69 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Luxembourg (5), Netherlands (5) and France (4). Together they employ 168 of the division's 27,722 FTE: 0.6%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €31.7m awarded 6,414 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie voor opleiding en advies voor kmo's en zelfstandigen (kmo-portefeuille)
  • Federal transfers 46.4m amount as published 31 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Schadevergoedingen aan Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.4m paid 3 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux associations reconnues à durée indéterminée dans le cadre du décret du 17 juillet 2003
  • EU budget €148.3m attributed share 41 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Rents and purchases
  • EU research €17.6m eu contribution 14 recipients · 2015 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Activities of notaries

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 69 is higher than that of 60% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 69 is 0.0%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 24,203 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 02-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 69102 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 69, not only NACE 69102. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait.