If you produce, invest, employ people or sell in Belgium, you deal with EU law as Belgium implements it — and with laws that are purely Belgian, Flemish, Walloon or Brussels. Each level has its own ministers, parliament, administration and timeline. We cover that layer for you, alongside your EU work or on its own.
Some files start in the EU and are implemented here; many are purely federal or regional. A few examples from the files we follow:
Each region runs its own permit system — the omgevingsvergunning in Flanders, the permis d’environnement and permis unique in Wallonia, separate environmental and planning permits in Brussels — with its own procedures, timelines and appeal routes. For an investment, this is often where policy becomes concrete.
Renewable energy, energy efficiency and distribution grids sit largely with the regions; offshore wind and nuclear are federal. Implementing one EU energy directive can take up to four legal texts, while support schemes and grid tariffs are set in Belgium itself.
Company car taxation is decided federally; low-emission zones, truck road charging and regional public transport are set by the regions themselves — no EU directive required.
Each region runs its own innovation and investment support — VLAIO in Flanders, the SPW in Wallonia, Innoviris in Brussels — within EU state aid limits, while federal tax incentives follow their own logic.
You set the direction; we do the Belgian legwork.
For each file: the competent minister and cabinet, the administration, the parliamentary committee and the advisory councils that weigh in.
We track federal bills and regional decrees from the first draft, and how EU acts land in each legal order — flagging where Belgian rules go further or diverge.
With cabinets, administrations, regulators and members of parliament — in Dutch, French and English.
Belgian policy is prepared with social partners and sector federations, from SERV, CESE Wallonie and Brupartners to the Central Economic Council. We know those tables.
Federal and regional parliaments, governments and the Belgian Official Journal go into the same dashboard as your EU files.
The same consultants follow the European institutions and the Belgian governments, so your EU and Belgian positions stay aligned.
Competences are divided between the federal level, three regions and three communities, so the right door depends on the subject. A simplified map:
Federal government and Chamber of Representatives
Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region
Flemish, French and German-speaking
Simplified overview — in practice several competences are split between levels.
Our partners have worked inside the system: as policy advisor in the federal parliament, in the Flemish government, at the federal and Flemish energy regulators CREG and VREG, and at the federations Agoria and BECI.
Meet the team →Only if you have a footprint here: a plant, an office, investments, employees or customers subject to Belgian rules. If your exposure is purely EU-level, our EU work and monitoring are what you need — and we will tell you so.
Yes. The Brussels-Capital Region is one of Belgium’s three regions, alongside Flanders and Wallonia, with its own government and parliament. Brussels is also home to the federal government and the EU institutions.
Yes. We work in Dutch, French and English, and write position papers and correspondence in the language of the institution you address.
Your EU team keeps the institutions; we take the Belgian federal and regional files where your business is exposed, and keep both positions aligned.
Tell us which files you follow. We will show you who decides what in Belgium — and what it means for you.
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