The purpose of the CBE is twofold:. The CBE centralises the basic data of companies and business unit and disseminates it to several competent authorities. The CBE assigns a unique identification number to each company and business unit.
This identification number allows authorities to exchange information. Consequently, companies need to submit their data to the authorities only once. This conversion will be carried out gradually, per group of activities. The conversion of all establishment unit-level activities has been scheduled for March The date for the conversion of VAT activities is currently unknown.
Moreover, until the conversion of all activities at establishment unit-level has happened, the Nace search application will only be available for NACE-BEL codes Two Walloon municipalities and twenty-eight Flemish ones will merge, respectively on 2 December and on 1 January The addresses of the registered seat of the entities registered as legal persons, establishment units and involved branches will be modified automatically in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, based on the information received by the authentic source of addresses and provided that the current address matches the address in the aforementioned authentic source.
These address changes will be automatically processed in the CBE on 9 December and 20 January respectively. Moreover, these administrative changes of address will be published, free of charge, in the appendices of the Belgian Official Gazette, if it is mandatory to publish the address modification. Therefore, the registered entities impacted by the merger are not required to carry out any formalities regarding the registration of an address change in the CBE.
However, the companies and associations are obliged to update their statutes at the next modification of statutes following the publication of the administrative modification of addresses. For more details on this obligation, we invite you to contact the FPS Justice. If you wish to obtain more information on these address changes, we invite you to contact the helpdesk of the CBE at the address helpdesk.
