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Subsidies

Who receives public money, from whom and for what? Five registers, each with its own amount, never added together.

114,730 recipients in the Flemish register5 registers 775,257 entries 08-11-2026 last updated

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European Commission, Financial Transparency System

Attributed share, per year (the budget year of the commitment)

Attributed share
€70.7m
in euro, as the register states it
Recipients
14
legal entities with an enterprise number
Entries
42
every line in the register

From 2021 to 2025. These figures cover 40.4% of what the register states for those years. The rest goes to natural persons or stands in the register without a usable enterprise number.

Largest recipients

  1. JOHN COCKERILL DEFENSE Company · Liège · Fabricated metal products · 2021 to 2025European Defence Fund
    €20.6m 11 entries
  2. THALES BELGIUM Company · Liège · Fabricated metal products · 2023 to 2025Largest of 3 programmes: Defence Industrial Reinforcement Instrument
    €16.1m 5 entries
  3. FN HERSTAL Company · Liège · Fabricated metal products · 2021 to 2025European Defence Fund
    €9.9m 8 entries
  4. ST Engineering iDirect (Europe) CY Company · East Flanders · Computer and electronic products · 2022 to 2025European Defence Fund
    €8.4m 2 entries
  5. Exail Robotics Belgium Company · Hainaut · Machinery and equipment · 2021 to 2024European Defence Fund
    €6.2m 3 entries

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Per year

  1. €2.0m 2021 2021, Attributed share €2,008,552, 4 recipients
  2. €22.0m 2022 2022, Attributed share €22,005,707, 6 recipients
  3. €4.3m 2023 2023, Attributed share €4,328,699, 4 recipients
  4. €20.7m 2024 2024, Attributed share €20,702,124, 8 recipients
  5. €21.7m 2025 2025, Attributed share €21,662,858, 5 recipients

The year is the budget year of the commitment.

Who pays

Programmes

  1. European Defence Fund €53.9m
  2. Defence Industrial Reinforcement Instrument €9.6m
  3. European Defence Fund €7.2m

Directorate-General

  1. X - INEA - Innovation and Networks Executive Agency €756.0m
  2. CINEA - Climate Infrastr&Envir EA €162.4m
  3. DEFIS - Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space €70.7m
  4. HADEA - European Health and Digital Executive Agency €46.9m
  5. X - IEEA - Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises €27.2m
  6. OIB - Office for Infrastructure and Logistics in Brussels €16.4m
  7. REA - European Research Executive Agency €14.7m
  8. CAJU - Clean Aviation J.U. €5.8m
  9. JRC - Joint Research Centre €5.3m
  10. HPC - European High-Perfomance Computing Joint Undertaking €5.0m

and 30 more

Conditions and calls are not in the register. The register itself: European Commission, Financial Transparency System (opens the source's website)

Method and sources

The register (2021 to 2025) holds 106,064 entries. 98,297 of them are shown, 40% of the "attributed share" amount. These are the recipients with an enterprise number that are legal entities. Not shown: 4,886 without an enterprise number, 2,881 with a number no longer (or never) in the open KBO data.

The register does not separate grants from procurement. Where the Commission publishes no split per beneficiary, the entry counts without an amount.

The register at its source: European Commission, Financial Transparency System (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 08-11-2026.