Has your company or organisation published a sustainability report reflecting on its 2025 activity? Do you want to highlight its sustainability efforts and increase people’s awareness on this topic?
Send us your report and try to become one of the winners of the 25th edition of the Belgian Awards for Sustainability Reports!
Submit your Sustainability Report until 30 April 2026 for CSRD organisations or until 22 July 2026, for non CSRD organisations (see categories below).
Conditions to participate
- Check the eligibility of your organisation and category of your organisation (see below or in the Code of Participation)
- Read the Evaluation Criteria to find out on what basis your report will be assessed
Code of Participation
Evaluation Criteria BAS 2026 - CSRD organisations
Evaluation Criteria BAS 2026 - Large non-CSRD organisations
Evaluation Criteria BAS 2026 - Non-large non-CSRD organisations
Eligible reports in 2026
- Every organisation that issues a sustainability report on its activities in Belgium and beyond – regardless of the size of the organisation or its industry – can participate in the BAS.
- The report has to communicate on the activities of a Belgian legal entity or on the Belgian activities of a foreign entity.
- The report on the Belgian activities of a foreign entity must set clear sustainability objectives and provide sufficient information on the basis of certain selected criteria (targets, results etc.) for Belgium.
- The organisation has to disclose on its environmental, social and governance activities and performance (ESG).
- Sustainability reporting based on European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) (mandatory for CSRD organisations) or other various internationally recognised frameworks or standards.
- The 2026 edition promotes sustainability reports relating to the year 2025 or - when not available - the most recent sustainability report (for a year prior to 2025) provided that it has been published in 2025 or 2026 and has not been submitted for previous editions of these BAS.
Categories of organisations in 2026
Organisations in the scope of the CSRD Law (“CSRD organisations”) : Public Interest Entities (PIEs) with more than 500 employees, including EU PIEs (meaning companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market within the European Economic Area), on a stand-alone or consolidated basis, and this already as from 2024 (with reporting in 2025).
Large organisations not in the scope of the CSRD Law (“Large non-CSRD organisations”): Large organisations exceeding two of the three following criteria either on a stand-alone or on a consolidated basis:
- Net turnover: EUR 50 million,
- Balance sheet total: EUR 25 million, and
- 250 employees (FTE).
This category includes large listed organisations together with EU-Public interest entities not subject to the CSRD Law in 2025.
Non-large non-CSRD organisations:
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Entities which do not exceed more than one of these mentioned criteria
- Other organisations:
- Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), not-for-profit organisations (ASBLs/VZWs), international not-for-profit organisations (AISBLs/IVZWs) or foundations, which are based in Belgium and operate in or outside the Belgian territory;
- Educational institutions, federations, public sector, etc.
Edition 2026 - Awards to be granted
- Lifetime Sustainability Award which will be granted by the Jury amongst the winners of the 24 previous editions of the BAS.
- Belgian Award for the Best Sustainability Report in each category of organisation, which will be selected by the Jury.
- Belgian Award for the Best First Sustainability Report which will be selected by the Jury amongst all first year reports received (cross categories).
- Award for the Most Readable and Accessible Sustainability Report which will be selected by the Jury.