Information to be made public after an IPO

The following information must be made public and uploaded to eCorporate:

• Home Member State: every listed company must have a home Member State. For issuers of shares, it will always be the Member State in which the registered office is situated.

  The standard form to be filled in is available here.

• Denominator: this is the company’s total number of voting rights. Shareholders subject to a transparency notification requirement need that information to be able to fulfil their obligations. The information must be made public in a (denominator) press release, together with data on the company’s capital and total number of voting securities.

• Statutory transparency thresholds: if any, Belgian law allows companies to set additional transparency thresholds on top of legal thresholds. A company doing so must disclose these thresholds. Shareholders subject to a transparency notification requirement need that information to be able to fulfil their obligations. The information must be made public in a press release. This does not have to be a separate press release, that information can thus also be included in the denominator press release.

Regulated information

The information described above is regulated information.

Specific disclosure and storage obligations apply to regulated information:

1. Dissemination (or disclosure) – to be done using media and in a manner ensuring fast access to such information on a non-discriminatory basis to as wide a public as possible. 
2. Storage regulated information is to be made available on:
   • the issuer’s website.
   • eCorporate. Regulated information uploaded to eCorporate is automatically recorded in STORI, the FSMA’s mechanism for storage of regulated information.

Deadlines

Disclosure of that information must occur by the following deadlines:

• Home Member State: within 3 months of admission to listing
• Denominator: on the date of the first listing
• Statutory thresholds: as soon as possible after their setting