data sources & licences
Where the company data comes from
PeppolStatus matches the Peppol participant directory against official national company registers to measure real adoption. Each register is public open data, reused here under its own licence, with the attribution those licences require.
Belgium
Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (CBE / KBO / BCE)
Belgian company facts come from the CBE Open Data published by the FPS Economy (Federal Public Service Economy) — the open extract of the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, known in Dutch as the KBO and in French as the BCE.
- Register
- Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE) — Open Data
- Publisher
- FPS Economy, S.M.E.s, Self-employed and Energy
- Licence
- CBE Open Data reuse conditions — free reuse with attribution and the reuse conditions passed through (Art. 2.8).
The licence requires that every reuse names the source and the extract date. Our attribution line reads:
Attribution shown on every Belgian surface Company data: CBE (KBO/BCE) Open Data, FPS Economy, data as of 2026-07-01
France
Sirene register (INSEE)
French company facts come from the Sirene register published by INSEE (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques), the national statistics institute. Sirene is distributed under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab), which permits reuse — including commercial reuse — provided the source and the extract date are cited.
- Register
- Sirene — répertoire des entreprises et de leurs établissements
- Publisher
- INSEE — www.insee.fr
- Source
- Base Sirene (data.gouv.fr)
Our attribution line reads:
Attribution shown on every French surface Company data: Sirene register, INSEE (www.insee.fr), extract of 2026-07-01 — Licence Ouverte 2.0
No endorsement
Independent reuse, not an official service
PeppolStatus is an independent reuse of this open data. Neither the FPS Economy nor INSEE endorses PeppolStatus, e‑invoice.be, or the way we combine, match and present their data. Using their open data does not imply that these bodies approve of, or are associated with, this service.
This site is not the official register and is not a substitute for it. For authoritative company information, consult the registers directly. Figures here are derived — we match participants to register records and aggregate them — so they can differ from the official source, and we may have introduced errors the registers did not.
Privacy
Natural-person names are withheld
Registry-sourced names are shown only for legal persons. Where a company is registered to a natural person (for example a sole trader), we publish only non-identifying facts — sector, region, status and incorporation date — and never the person's name. The gate is applied in the data itself, not just in the page.
A participant's own name from the Peppol directory is a separate source and is shown as the directory publishes it.
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