Belgium

Belgium's posture is led by the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium, which urges organisations to prepare for the quantum era and frames its advice around the European Union's strategic roadmap milestones. Acting as the national coordination centre, the CCB also channels EU cybersecurity funding towards post-quantum cryptography topics, including the transition to post-quantum public key infrastructures. The federal public service BOSA points organisations to the NIST 2024 standards, and the National Bank of Belgium tracks post-quantum cryptography as an emerging risk for financial market infrastructures. No Belgian national migration deadline or sovereign algorithm list has been published.

Governance credibility

Governance credibility scores for Belgium, each out of two. Hover or focus a row to highlight its axis.

Criterion	Score	Confidence
Relevance	2.0 / 2	High
Coherence	2.0 / 2	High
Effectiveness	1.5 / 2	High
Efficiency	2.0 / 2	High
Governance	2.0 / 2	High
Impact	2.0 / 2	High

Regulatory basis

• NIS2 Directive (EU) 2022/2555, Art. 21(2)(h) EU Binding law
• DORA, Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (financial sector) EU Binding law
• Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/1101 on a coordinated PQC roadmap EU Soft law
• NIS Cooperation Group Coordinated Implementation Roadmap (2026/2030/2035) EU Soft law

Legal status: Binding

Essential and important entities must use state-of-the-art cryptography under NIS2, transposed into national law, and financial entities face equivalent duties under DORA; neither yet names post-quantum algorithms specifically. Migration follows the EU coordinated roadmap, with high-risk use cases targeted for 2030 and full migration by 2035, which is encouraged rather than mandated.

Standards and algorithms

No standards or algorithms specified.

Hybrid stance

None stated

Migration timeline

today

2030

2035

20252036

1. 2030High-risk use cases migrated
2. 2035Full migration of all systems complete

Target completion: 2035

International standards processes

• NIS Cooperation Group co-authored the EU coordinated PQC roadmap

Governmental and standards bodies

• CCB Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium, national cyber security authority and national coordination centre (NCC-BE) channelling EU PQC funding
• BOSA Federal public service for policy and support, quantum cybersecurity guidance
• NBB National Bank of Belgium, financial market infrastructure oversight

Key institutional documents

• New EU cybersecurity funding opportunities: Digital Europe Programme and Horizon Europe calls now open CCB · 2025 · T1
• NBB Annual Report 2025 - Prudential regulation and supervision NBB · 2025 · T1
• Swift oversight factsheet (Financial Market Infrastructures) NBB · T1
• Financial Market Infrastructures and Payment Services 2025 NBB · 2025 · T1
• Quantum cybersecurity (Quantum4Belgium) BOSA · T1
• Preparing for the Quantum Era: A Strategic Imperative for Belgian Organisations CCB · T1
• CCB 10-year anniversary publication (post-quantum cryptography) CCB · 2025 · T1

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