About us

The Directorate-General Environment of the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment is one of the key Federal bodies involved in biodiversity.

Our biodiversity work can be broken down as follows:

to apply the federal legal framework for the management of non-indigenous species in order to supplement the actions of the Regions, facilitate the steps being taken by businesses, protect legal trade and reduce current and future ecological and economic damage.
to implement additional federal measures to those of the Regions in order to measure, guarantee and value ecosystem services and ensure secure access to and the equitable sharing of genetic resources.
to negotiate in the various European/international Biodiversity-related fora, so that any commitments are in line with Belgian interests.

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The BeBiodiversity strategy

This major strategy lead by the Belgian Minister for the Environment aims to explain the challenges involved in the preservation of biodiversity to the public, businesses and the authorities.

The objective

To mobilise entrepreneurs and citizens-consumers to encourage the markets to shift towards products and consumption that value biodiversity and ecosystem services.
To share the “responsible alliance” (co-responsibility) message with the authorities, businesses and citizens-consumers.

Why do we need this strategy?

The preservation of biodiversity is a major challenge for all of us. It is also high on the list of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs. But increasingly urgent action is needed to implement Belgium’s biodiversity commitments as part of the 2011-2020 strategy plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

In this context, the federal State wants to:

inform businesses and help them to take voluntary steps to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services;
give citizens and consumers the means to choose more biodiversity-friendly products and producers.