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Belgium

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Belgium does not publish a register of named donors in a form that can be reused.

Rules and sources

Disclosure threshold
N/a (aggregates)
Legal framework
Law of 4 July 1989 on the limitation and control of election expenses and on the funding and open accounting of political parties (plus regional laws for regional elections). Only natural persons may donate: a maximum of EUR 500 per year per recipient (party, party component, list, candidate, agent) and EUR 2,000 per year in total per donor. The identity of anyone giving EUR 125 or more must be recorded and the list submitted each year to the Commission de contrôle, but it is NOT made public. Parties with at least one seat in the Chamber publish consolidated accounts every year (including the total of donations received) through a report of the Commission de contrôle des dépenses électorales et de la comptabilité des partis politiques (Chamber + Senate), with summaries in the Moniteur belge; election expense declarations are filed with the court of first instance and may be consulted for 15 days. Oversight: the parliamentary Commission de contrôle (with an opinion from the Cour des comptes) at federal level; the Vlaamse Controlecommissie and equivalent commissions for Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking Community.
Currency
EUR
Sources
Caveats
  • Belgium bans donations from legal persons and caps individual donations (EUR 500 per recipient, EUR 2,000 per donor per year). Parties, lists and candidates must record the identity of donors of EUR 125+ (art. 16bis of the law of 4 July 1989) and send the list to the competent control commission, but by law these gift lists are NOT published (art. 16ter: filed with the Commission de contrôle by 30 June of the following year; for election expenses the identities are communicated to the commission and the declarations are only open for inspection): no named donor of gifts exists in an official publication, so the donations data is header-only. Companies, associations and other legal persons may only give sponsoring (against advertising, at market price, max EUR 500 per recipient and EUR 2,000 per sponsor a year); the same article 16ter, paragraphs 2bis and 3 (in force since 1 January 2016) says the annual sponsoring statement of federal parties, with the name and address of each sponsor of EUR 125+, the amount and the date, 'est publié dans les documents parlementaires'. That is the one named source that may exist; it could not be located or downloaded in this pass (see the next caveat).
  • Verified 2026-09-28 that no official source publishes donor identities: (1) the federal Control Commission's report on the parties' 2024 financial reports (Chamber DOC 56 0961/001, 3 July 2025, 588 pages, retrieved from dekamer.be) contains the consolidated accounts and totals only; (2) the Flemish Control Commission's final report on the 9 June 2024 election (Vlaams Parlement Stuk 250 (2024-2025) nr. 1) gives per party and per candidate only total expenses and total funds ('middelen') and states that donor/sponsor identities are declared to the commission; (3) the Walloon, Brussels and German-speaking Community commissions follow the same rules (identity of donors of EUR 125+ declared to the commission, election-expense declarations open for inspection at the court for 15 days, not published online). Nothing named could therefore be ingested. Update 2026-09-29: (a) the consolidated text of the law on justel (last updated 21 January 2026) still has no publication of gift donors; (b) the Flemish Control Commission's report on the registrations of donors and sponsors of EUR 125+ for the 9 June 2024 election (Vlaams Parlement Stuk 249 (2024-2025) nr. 1, 12 March 2025, https://docs.vlaamsparlement.be/files/pfile?id=2133348) names nobody: it reports that five parties and one candidate registered gifts and three candidates registered sponsors (now filed in the Romeo application as annexes to the declaration of election expenses), that Team Fouad Ahidar declared EUR 13,500 of gifts with nine above the EUR 500 cap (corrected to EUR 6,500) and that the matter was passed to the public prosecutor; (c) the federal sponsoring statements required by art. 16ter, 2bis/3 were not found: the Chamber of Representatives site (dekamer.be and lachambre.be) answered every scripted request with an F5 'Request Rejected' page on 2026-09-29 (it had served DOC 56 0961/001 the day before) and the challenge was not bypassed; the cached DOC 56 0961/001 (financial reports of the parties for 2024, 588 scanned pages) was sampled by OCR (N-VA section: consolidation perimeter, component accounts, auditor's report) and contains no sponsor list, so the sponsoring statements must be in a separate parliamentary document (a search hit suggests DOC 55 1128/001, unverified); (d) a Follow the Money / VSquare investigation (2024) reports that the roughly EUR 1 million of gifts declared for 2019-2022 sit in boxes marked secret that only members of the control commission may consult, and no reform of the rules had been adopted by September 2026 as far as the sources checked show.
  • The official consolidated party accounts (Chamber documents, e.g. DOC 55 2076/005 for 2020, DOC 56 0961/001 for 2024) are now reachable on dekamer.be but are largely scanned images; they were checked for donor identities but not transcribed, so the party accounts data still relies on the KU Leuven summary. Moniteur belge summaries (mirrored on etaamb) render the tables as images.
  • the party accounts data holds only annual 2024 figures from KU Leuven (total income rounded to EUR 0.1m; donations figures for PVDA and Vlaams Belang include bequests). Flemish 2024 election campaign expenses/funds per party are in election_expenses_vl_2024.csv (not loaded as party finances). Voor U declared EUR 151,558.42 expenses but only EUR 4,208.66 funds.
  • Public funding per party (federal/regional dotations, group allowances) is only available as percentages of income in the KU Leuven report (overall EUR 83.7m direct subsidies in 2024, 77% of party income); not ingested per party to avoid derived estimates.
  • CRISP (Smulders & Maddens 2017) gives donations per party 1999-2016, but in amounts indexed to October 2017 prices, so it was not ingested.
  • Party names such as Volt Belgium are mapped from the list names used in the Flemish report ('Volt Europa').