1. Statistics Belgium Project on the use of XBRL at the SBS-department of Statistics Belgium

2. Structure of the presentation SBS datacollection overview SBS in Belgium Development of taxonomy Explanations about our taxonomy Belgian NSI experiences Parameters reused High level strategy Procedure for testing Timelines

3. SBS Datacollection SBS comprises 4 sectors (annex 1-4): Services Industry Distributive trade Construction Sample of +/- 44000 enterprises each year +/- 33000: laying down annual accounts The associations and the small enterprises not laying donw accounts, are out of scope of this project at this time

4. SBS Taxonomy No sectoral diversification Same documents for entities out of the 4 sectors Own SBS-taxonomy (import of some parts of taxonomy of the National Bank of Belgium) Reusability of items out of Belgian GAAP Reuse of some items out of the detailed accounts of enterprises (≈ Belgian GAAP) Full: 1/3 of the items are reused out of the GAAP Abbr: 1/2 of the items are reused out of the GAAP No reusability of items out of the annual accounts due to administrative simplification

6. SBS Taxonomy Maintaining forms philosophy: 2 forms in according to the annual accounts: Full Abbreviate

7. SBS Taxonomy

8. Non-intrusive approach Xbrl or paper (in line with the NBB) Xbrl: Publication of the taxonomy on our website (november) Software companies are invited to include our taxonomy in their accounting software (based on xbrl): already 1 company shown some interest in it (the biggest of Belgium) Contact of accountancy enterprises should start asap Development of application based on xbrl

9. ENTERPRISE FPS ECONOMY 1. Download taxonomy Incorporate in Annual Account Software SBS Taxonomy 2. Send instance SBS Taxonomy- Instance Internal Database Validation 3. Result of validation If needed, Correction of instance Xml-validation XBRL-validation Validation own rules?

10. ENTERPRISE FPS ECONOMY 1. Download application Application on the Internet based on Xbrl (xls, html,…) Internal Database Validation Filling in and send Back 2. Transmission of data in xbrl 3. Result of validation If needed, Correction of instance Xml-validation XBRL-validation Validation own rules?

11. Belgian NSI experiences Averaged number of parameters reused GCD Data types Value list (countries, towns) Core (elements out of the GAAP)

12. Belgian NSI experiences High level strategy? Xbrl incorporated into the management plan of our Director General Testing case SBS. Afterwards, probably extension to other (or all) enterprise statistics (depends on experiences with SBS + the spreading of the use of xbrl through the whole federal administration)

13. Belgian NSI experiences Procedure for testing Contact software enterprises (incorporation of taxonomy in accounting software based on xbrl) Contact of accountancy enterprises Contacting of a few enterprises to test the taxonomy

14. Belgian NSI experiences Timeliness Release of the taxonomy by November Testing phase from November - March Development of web application by 1/04/2007