63 - INFORMATION SERVICE ACTIVITIES Companies in Belgium
Approximately 57,801 real businesses classified under 63 - Information service activities in Belgium, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 57,801 real businesses classified under 63 - Information service activities operate in Belgium. Covers companies officially classified under NACEBEL 2008 code 63 (Information service activities), part of Belgium's NACEBEL 2008 classification of economic activities. This division is one of the sub-sectors making up the broader Information and Communication sector. Ownership, beneficial-ownership disclosure and company-registration rules for businesses under this specific activity code follow the same general framework that applies across Information and Communication in Belgium.
Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Information and Communication companies in Belgium follow the same national framework as every other sector there.
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Data Coverage
Record counts for NACE section J in Belgium, as of the last reconciliation.
Section J is 5% of the Belgium register by entity count and its 8th largest sector — see all sectors.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you
Information and Communication in Belgium operates under NIS2 as transposed by the Law of 26 April 2024, with its substantive cybersecurity risk-management and incident-reporting obligations applicable from 18 October 2024. The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) serves as the national cybersecurity authority and national CSIRT, alongside relevant sectoral authorities, and recognises CyberFundamentals (CyFun) and ISO/IEC 27001 as reference frameworks for demonstrating compliance. By late November 2025, Belgium had already registered 1,500 essential entities and 2,500 important entities under the law.
18 April 2026 is a specific, critical compliance milestone: essential entities must by then be able to demonstrate they’re effectively implementing cybersecurity risk-management measures via a recognised pathway. Scope itself depends on two criteria together — operating in one of the 18 sectors listed in NIS2’s annexes, and meeting a size threshold of at least 50 employees or €10 million in annual turnover or balance sheet. For verification, a Belgian IT or digital-infrastructure counterparty’s NIS2 status depends on checking both criteria, and its registration and compliance-pathway status with the CCB is a distinct, checkable fact from general company registration.
Belgium Information and Communication, by the register
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Active vs. inactive
Section J entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.
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NIS2 essential/important-entity screening
Belgium transposed NIS2 via the Law of 26 April 2024, applicable from 18 October 2024, with CCB (Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium) as the national authority. By late November 2025, Belgium had already registered 1,500 essential entities and 2,500 important entities — a real, checkable scale of compliance already underway.
18 April 2026 essential-entity deadline
18 April 2026 is a critical milestone: essential entities must be able to demonstrate they’re effectively implementing cybersecurity risk-management measures following a recognised compliance pathway — CyberFundamentals (CyFun) or ISO/IEC 27001 are the recognised reference frameworks.
Size-and-sector scope check
NIS2 scope in Belgium depends on two criteria together: operating in one of 18 listed sectors, and meeting a size threshold of at least 50 employees or €10 million in turnover/balance sheet — a company can be in a covered sector and still fall below the size threshold, or vice versa.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies are classified under 63 - Information service activities in Belgium?
Approximately 57,801 businesses are classified under 63 - Information service activities in Belgium.
What does NACEBEL 2008 code 63 cover?
63 - Information service activities is the official name for this activity under Belgium's NACEBEL 2008 classification of economic activities. It is a sub-category within the broader Information and Communication sector.
How is this different from the broader Information and Communication category?
Information and Communication is the top-level sector; NACEBEL 2008 code 63 identifies one specific activity within it, letting you narrow a search to exactly this business type rather than the whole sector.
What ownership information is available for these companies?
The same beneficial-ownership, shareholder and officer disclosure framework applies as for any other company in Belgium, regardless of its specific activity classification. See the individual company profile for the full ownership picture, or the Information and Communication sector overview for the general national framework.
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