XBRL Belgium A five year venture

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XBRL BelgiumA five year venture

• Camille Dümm
• Central Balance Sheet Data Office
• National Bank of Belgium

Brussels, 20 October 2009
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Agenda

• XBRL- Story
• Members
• Objectives
• Activities
• Achievements

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The XBRL-Story

• XBRL Belgium
• Non-profit organization created in November 2004
• Became an Established Jurisdiction in 2006
• Hosted by the National Bank of Belgium
• Members are regulators as well as accountants
  institutes or private companies
• Founding member of XBRL-Europe

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XBRL Belgium - Other members

• Government agencies
• Federal Public Service "Information and
  Communication Technology"
• Directorate general Statistics and Economic
  Information(formerly NIS)
• Data analysers
• Coface Services Belgium
• DunBradstreet Belgium
• Press
• Pressbanking

• Software vendors
• Aguilonius Consulting
• Intersentia
• Kluwer Software
• Platinum Europe
• PragmaTools
• Consultants
• PricewaterhouseCoopers 
• Deloitte Consulting
• Ernst Young
• Academic members
• Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
  (FUNDP)
• Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, campus
  Vlekho en Honim
• Universiteit Gent

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XBRL Belgium - From objectives to reality
Promote - Through operational projects like the
filing of annual accounts or bank reporting
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Coordinate initiatives - Collaborating with other
regulators in developping new taxonomies
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How
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Development, spreading and taxonomies maintenance
- "Building blocks" method
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XBRL Belgium - Activities

• Participation to XBRL Events (Conferences,
  Seminars, training days)
• Participation at international level - ISC, XEU
  and WG
• Practical projects at national level

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XBRL Belgium - Activities

• Working groups which are responsible for
  coordinating projects at national level.
• Taxonomy - Development of the annual accounts
  taxonomy based on Belgian accounting principles
  (BE-GAAP)
• Communication - Internal and external
  communication, training, contacts with members
• Taxonomy recognition - Recognition and validation
  of Belgian taxonomies intended for wide public use

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Achievements

• Projects in production
• Finrep/Corep
• Filing of annual accounts
• Business Survey
• Projects in construction
• Corporate Tax Return

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• Thank you for your attention