Skip to main content
Guidance

Overseas business risk for Belgium

Information on key security and political risks which UK businesses may face when operating in Belgium.

Updates to this page

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and Department for Business and Trade
Published:
30 July 2015
Last updated:
3 December 2025
Show all updates

  1. Risk assessment updated to include latest statistics and data from 2025.

  2. Updated information regarding Belgian federal and regional elections.

  3. All statistics have been updated using 2023 figures.

  4. Updated figures

  5. Guidance updated with latest figures under these sections: General Overview, Politics, Business and human rights and Bribery and Corruption.

  6. Guidance updated with latest 2021 figures.

  7. Overseas Business Risk for Belgium has been updated in the cyber security subsection

  8. Updated to reflect the latest business risks in Belgium

  9. Updated October 2020

  10. Updated report - September 2020

  11. Updated September 2019

  12. July 2015 update

  13. First published.

Documents

Overseas business risk: Belgium

HTML

Details

This report looks at the intellectual property, organised crime, human rights, bribery and corruption and terrorist risks that UK businesses may face when operating in Belgium.

Sign up for emails or print this page

Related content