Belgium policy interest rate
ECB deposit facility rate — the euro area policy rate that applies to Belgium. The Nationale Bank van België / Banque nationale de Belgique (NBB/BNB) is a Eurosystem national central bank and sets no independent policy rate.
| Current value | 2.25 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-17 |
| Official source | European Central Bank, Key ECB interest rates (official rate table); underlying instrument: ECB Governing Council monetary policy decision of 11 June 2026 raising the three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points with effect from 17 June 2026 |
| Last verified | 2026-07-22 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Belgium has no national policy rate. Monetary policy is set by the ECB Governing Council for the whole euro area; the NBB/BNB implements it in Belgium and holds a seat on the Governing Council, but it publishes no rate of its own. The deposit facility rate (DFR) is served here because since the 2024 operational-framework change the DFR is the ECB's de facto steering rate for short-term money market rates (€STR). The official ECB key-rates table was re-loaded on 2026-07-22 and its most recent row is still 17 June 2026: deposit facility 2.25%, main refinancing operations 2.40%, marginal lending facility 2.65%. No row has been added since, so 2.25% is the rate in force on the confirmation date. The DFR had been at 2.00% from 11 June 2025 until 16 June 2026. IDENTICAL value and effective_from must be served for NL, IT, DE, FR, ES and every other euro area member — any divergence between euro area country files is a data error, not a real difference. If a consumer needs the MRO rate (which feeds several Belgian statutory reference-rate calculations) it is 2.40%. DO NOT CONFUSE with the Belgian 'taux d'intérêt légal / wettelijke interestvoet', a separate national quantity fixed annually and published in the Moniteur belge by the SPF Finances (with a distinct, higher rate for commercial transactions under the law of 2 August 2002 on late payment); that national legal interest rate is derived from ECB rates but is not the ECB rate and is not served here. VERIFICATION CAVEAT: the rate levels and the 17 June 2026 effective date are confirmed directly on the ECB rate table; the narrative around the decision (the 11 June 2026 meeting date and its motivation) is reported context and was not re-read from the ECB press release in this pass.
Earlier values
Get it programmatically
curl https://euroref.dev/v1/be/policy-rate
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://euroref.dev/v1/be/policy-rate/history?from=2020-01-01
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