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

114,718 recipients in the Flemish register5 registers 775,209 entries 12-11-2026 last updated

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FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government

Amount as published, per year (the year of the transfer)

Amount as published
8.27bn
currency not stated by the source
Recipients
392
legal entities with an enterprise number
Entries
817
every line in the register

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

  1. NATIONALE MAATSCHAPPIJ DER BELGISCHE SPOORWEGEN Other legal form · Brussels · Land transport · 2023 to 2025Largest of 12 programmes: Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van de NMBS met oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van NMBS
    6.34bn 23 entries
  2. bpost Other legal form · Brussels · Postal and courier · 2023 to 2025Largest of 2 programmes: Betaling aan bpost in uitvoering van het beheerscontract (cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting)
    773.6m 5 entries
  3. ELECTRABEL Company · Brussels · Electricity, gas and steam · 2023 to 2025Subsidie aan NV ELECTRABEL in het kader van de verlenging van de de kerncentrales Doel 4 en Tihange 3
    264.1m 3 entries
  4. Fonds Sociale Maribel Other legal form · Brussels · 2023 to 2025Bijdragen aan privé ziekenhuizen
    143.1m 3 entries
  5. Skeyes Other legal form · Brussels · Warehousing and transport support · 2023 to 2025Largest of 2 programmes: Financiering van de kosten voor plaatselijke luchtvaartnavigatiedienstverlening op de Belgische luchthavens (cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting)
    96.1m 6 entries

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Per year

  1. 2.61bn 2023 2023, Amount as published 2,613,329,287, 181 recipients
  2. 2.59bn 2024 2024, Amount as published 2,591,847,636, 268 recipients
  3. 3.07bn 2025 2025, Amount as published 3,068,886,280, 267 recipients

The year is the year of the transfer.

Who pays

Budget allocations

  1. Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van de NMBS met oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van NMBS 2.54bn
  2. Bijdrage voor het binnenlands vervoer van reizigers met treinen van de gewone dienst ten gunste van de NMBS 2.12bn
  3. Variabele exploitatie toelage, ten gunste van NMBS 1.47bn
  4. Betaling aan bpost in uitvoering van het beheerscontract (cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting) 456.5m
  5. vergoeding concesionaris bezorging kranten en tijdsriften 317.1m
  6. Subsidie aan NV ELECTRABEL in het kader van de verlenging van de de kerncentrales Doel 4 en Tihange 3 264.1m
  7. Bijdragen aan privé ziekenhuizen 143.1m
  8. Bijdrage voor maatregelen die strekken tot het kosteloos woon-werkverkeer per trein ten voordele van de NMBS 131.3m
  9. Financiering van de kosten voor plaatselijke luchtvaartnavigatiedienstverlening op de Belgische luchthavens (cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting) 93.1m
  10. Subsidie aan het IRE voor de verwerking van 80.9m
  11. Investeringssteun in het kader van de essentiëleveiligheidsbelangen (EVB) 71.5m
  12. Gecombineerd en verspreid vervoer(cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting) 68.4m

and 68 more. Search a word of the name, or download the full list: CSV

Department

  1. FPS Mobility and Transport 7.01bn
  2. FPS Economy 836.8m
  3. FPS Public Health 192.3m
  4. Defence 100.0m
  5. FPS Policy and Support 43.9m
  6. FPS Foreign Affairs 30.0m
  7. FPS Finance 29.4m
  8. FPS Justice 12.5m
  9. FPS Home Affairs 9.8m
  10. Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products 9.0m

and 2 more

Kind of transfer

  1. Overdrachten aan de socialezekerheidsinstellingen 79.72bn
  2. Overdrachten aan autonome instellingen 24.09bn
  3. Overdrachten aan lokale overheden 11.62bn
  4. Overdrachten aan bedrijven 8.27bn
  5. Overdrachten aan gewesten en gemeenschappen 8.19bn
  6. Overdrachten aan het buitenland 1.00bn
  7. Overdrachten aan gezinnen en vzw 690.4m

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

  1. HTransport and storage 7.28bn
  2. DEnergy 325.6m
  3. Sector not known 144.4m
  4. CManufacturing 109.5m
  5. EWater and waste 94.2m
  6. NProfessional and technical services 86.5m
  7. LFinance and insurance 45.7m
  8. KTelecoms and IT 41.9m
  9. PPublic administration 33.6m
  10. FConstruction 33.1m
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  1. RHealth and social work 32.5m
  2. MReal estate 12.0m
  3. OAdministrative and support services 10.3m
  4. TOther services 9.6m
  5. QEducation 9.3m
  6. GWholesale and retail trade 4.5m
  7. SArts, sports and recreation 905,166
  8. AAgriculture, forestry and fishing 679,030
  9. JPublishing and media 16,342
  10. IAccommodation and food service 880

The sector is the main activity in NACE-BEL 2025 per the KBO.

By region

  1. Brussels 7.96bn
  2. Wallonia 172.7m
  3. Flanders 141.9m

A recipient counts in the province of its registered office.

Kind of organisation

  1. Other legal forms 7.46bn
  2. Companies 648.6m
  3. Non-profits and foundations 120.5m
  4. Public bodies 43.8m

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 12-11-2026.

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