National Bank of Belgium Case Study

Filing of accounts by Belgian companies to the National Bank of Belgium, which is responsible for collecting financial statements from the nation's firms, will switch to XBRL from April 2007.  Some 295,000 commercial and industrial companies are due to start filing in XBRL from that date.  The Bank's project to introduce XBRL has finished its development phase, leaving only details and final testing to be completed before launch. This is a four-page document in double-sided PDF format, the XII's standard Case Study format.