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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 55 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 58 to 48.6.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2022.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs from Brussel, company number BE0422071051, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 363,612 after tax. For that financial year Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs recorded revenue of € 189,510 and equity of € 3.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -25,423 to € 363,612. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 4, 2026.
€ 3.3 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 363,612
▲ still € 25,423 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 58% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2025
48.6
▼ 3.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.7 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 97,000 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 88,540
▲ 16% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 290,795
▲ 48% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 67 days on average.
€ 660,169
▲ 6% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 472,848 | € 1,098,438 | € 105,519 | € 189,510 | ▲ 80% |
| Gross margin | € 4,387,789 | - | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € -327,019 | € 279,622 | € -25,423 | € 363,612 | ▲ € 389,035 |
| Equity | € 2,640,846 | € 2,920,468 | € 2,895,045 | € 3,258,657 | ▲ 13% |
| Total debts | € 5,107,766 | € 3,765,239 | € 3,536,477 | € 4,767,688 | ▲ 35% |
| Cash | € 5,721,896 | € 857,058 | € 3,731,191 | € 1,557,149 | ▼ 58% |
| Retained profit | € 2,165,304 | € 2,444,926 | € 2,419,503 | € 2,783,115 | ▲ 15% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,787,872 | € 6,685,707 | € 6,431,522 | € 8,026,345 | ▲ 25% |
| Employees (FTE) | 54.1 | 58 | 51.9 | 48.6 | ▼ 3.3 |
Key figures of Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs?
What happened at Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- VERBRAUCHERZENTRALE BUNDESVERVAND - VZBV stepped down as director. NBB
- UFC - QUE CHOISIR stepped down as director. NBB
- TEST-ACHATS stepped down as director. NBB
- FORBRUKERRADET stepped down as director. NBB
- ZVEZA POTROSNIKOV SLOVENIJE - ZPS stepped down as director. NBB
- WHICH ? stepped down as director. NBB
- ALTROCONSUMO stepped down as director. NBB
- CONSUMENTENBOND stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 327,019 loss in 2022 to € 363,612 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 363,612 profit.
On average € 81,100 of value added per employee in 2022.
Pays suppliers within 67 days on average.
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What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Els Bruggeman
since 2025 · until 2029
FORBRUKERRADET
Director · represented by Gunstein INSTEFJORD
since 2025 · until 2029
UFC - QUE CHOISIR
Director · represented by Frithjof Michaelsen
since 2025 · until 2029
ZVEZA POTROSNIKOV SLOVENIJE - ZPS
Director · represented by Jasmina BEVC BAHAR
since 2025 · until 2029
WHICH ?
Director · represented by Rocio CONCHA GALGUERA
since 2025 · until 2029
ALTROCONSUMO
Director · represented by Luisa CRISIGIOVANNI
since 2025 · until 2029
CONSUMENTENBOND
Director · represented by Arnold KOOPMANS
since 2025 · until 2029
FORBRUGERRADET
Director · represented by Esben GEIST
since 2025 · until 2029
Czech association of consumers – dTest
Director · represented by Edouarda HEKSOVA
since 2025 · until 2029
VERBRAUCHERZENTRALE BUNDESVERVAND - VZBV
Director · represented by Thomas Bobinger
since 2026 · until 2030
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Aarlenstraat 80
1040 Brussel
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Details
- Company number
- 0422.071.051
- VAT number
- BE 0422.071.051
- Registered office
- Aarlenstraat 80, 1040 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs · BEUC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- International non-profit association
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 November 1981
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Jan 2026
- Contact
- [email protected] 02 743 15 90
- Activities · NACE
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