Registration of a self-employed person (EU citizen)
Are you a European citizen or assimilated (national of Switzerland, Iceland, Lichtenstein or Norway), are you self-employed and are you staying on the territory of the City of Brussels?
If you intend to reside in Belgium for more than 3 months and establish your main residence there, you must contact the municipal administration of the City of Brussels to register.
- European citizen or assimilated
- Establish your main residence on the territory of the City of Brussels (precise address: street name, house number, possible mailbox number)
- Self-employed person (entrepreneur, active partner, helper, liberal profession)
With an online taken appointment only, at the counter of the Administrative Centre of the City of Brussels or the liaison office of Louise.
Registration is done in several steps:
- Application for a registration certificate (annex 19): once you have proved your EU citizenship or equivalent, you will be entered in the 'Waiting Register' and given your application for registration certificate. From that moment, you will have 3 months to provide all the required documents, unless you can produce them immediately. In this case, you will be issued with a provisional document certifying your registration (Annex 8ter) which is valid for 45 days.
- Residence check: the police are responsible for carrying out this check. A neighbourhood officer will go to the declared address to establish your actual presence there. If the check is positive, you will be registered at the address and in the 'Register of Foreigners'.
- EU card: when you have obtained your registration (annex 8ter) and the address check is positive, you can make an appointment to order your EU card.
- National passport or national identity card
- 1 recent (6 months maximum) External site ICAO compliant passport photo
- Full extract from the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (with stamp and signature of the company, or the company for which you are an active partner, or of the person assisted. Please note: only the full extract of CBE data issued by a business counter can be accepted, with date and stamp of the business counter)
- Certificate of affiliation to a social insurance fund for self-employed persons (sent directly to the Administrative Centre of the City of Brussels by the social insurance fund)
26 euros
As soon as the registration and the positive control at the address are obtained.
Last update on 31/10/2022
