Fund Distribution Alert 2024-04

Belgium: Updated regulatory fees 2024

Belgium: Updated regulatory fees 2024

The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) communicated its regulatory fees for notification and maintenance of foreign UCITS and AIFs in Belgium, applying the 2024 index.

Please see hereafter a table summarizing the updated fees (in EUR), in comparison with 2023:

UCITS

2023

2024

Initial notification fee per sub-fund (art. 29 of the Royal Decree)

434

471

Annual maintenance fee per sub-fund (art. 5, §4, 1° of the Royal Decree)

2965

3222

AIFs

2023

2024

Initial notification fee per sub-fund (art. 29 of the Royal Decree)

AIF distributed to retail investors

434

471

AIF distributed to professional investors only

0

0

Annual maintenance fee (art. 5 of the Royal Decree)

EEA-AIF distributed to professional investors only

0

0

Self-managed licensed third country AIF distributed to professional investors only (art. 5, §1/1, 3° of the Royal Decree)

540

586

Basis maintenance fee for all AIF distributed to retail investors (1) (art. 5, §4, 2° of the Royal Decree)

(2) Doubled for the first year the fee is due

18520
(2)

20125
(2)

Additional maintenance fee for self-managed AIFs:

 

  • Self-managed licensed EEA-AIF distributed to retail investors (art. 5, §1/1, 3° of the Royal Decree)

540

486

  • Self-managed licensed third country AIF distributed to retail investors (art. 5, §1/1, 1° of the Royal Decree), the amount of fees depends on the amount of assets under management during the preceding year as communicated in the financial reports to the FSMA:

a) AUM above 500 Mio EUR

4329

4704

b) AUM between 100 Mio EUR and 500 Mio EUR

2598

2823

c) AUM up to 100 Mio EUR

876

942

(1) Public undertakings for collective investment in debt claims under Belgian and Foreign Law pay a contribution equal to 0.02 EUR per thousand of the total value of their assets under management on 31 December of the previous year.

The FSMA normally issues its invoices in December.

Feel free to contact us should you require additional information.

Contacts

Said Fihri

Partner
+352 22 51 51 7892
said.fihri@kpmg.lu

Henrik Olsson

Senior Manager
+352 22 51 51 7417
henrik.olsson@kpmg.lu