Enterprise No. Field, Contact Table

Specifies the contact's enterprise number. This field is valid for companies only. You can enter a maximum of 50 characters, both numbers and letters.

As of January 2005 each Belgian company has received a unique enterprise number from the Belgian Crossroad Bank of Enterprises. The enterprise number uniquely identifies the company and is introduced to facilitate and simplify the administration with the Belgian authorities. In the long term, the enterprise number is supposed to completely replace the current VAT registration number.

The enterprise number consists of two parts, alphanumeric and numeric.

The first part is preceding text (alphanumeric) that varies for each type of company and indicates the VAT system applicable to that company. The text also varies depending on the company's language (Dutch or French).

The second part is a number of 10 digits that must meet the MOD97 check formula. The same formula is currently used to check the validity of VAT registration numbers and/or branch numbers:

Last 2 digits = 97 - (First 8 digits MOD 97)

Below you'll find a few examples of how an enterprise number could look like:

	Text Part 1		Text Part 2	Example
Criterium	NLB	FRB
Not VAT obliged	<Blank>	<Blank>	<Blank>	0123.456.789
VAT obliged - no EU transactions	BTW	TVA	<Blank>	BTW - 0123.456.789
VAT obliged - EU transactions	BTW	TVA	BE	BTW - BE - 0123.456.789
Partnership with legal body	RPR	NPM	Name of City	RPR - Gent - 0123.456.789
Civil partnership	RPR	NPM	Name of City	RPR - Gent - 0123.456.789

As of January 2005, the enterprise number must be used on the following documents:

• Outgoing sales documents.

• Outgoing purchase documents.

• Financial statements.

• Reminders and finance charge memos.

• Intrastat (Form, File).

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Parent Tables

Table	Location
Contact Table	Relationship Management