bosa.belgium.be

Context

bosa.belgium.be is the website of Belgium’s Federal Public Service for Policy and Support (SPF Stratégie et Appui / FOD Beleid en Ondersteuning, FPS BOSA), responsible for digital government, public procurement, and personnel policy for the federal administration. FPS BOSA also administers the general state portal belgium.be and its cookie guidance. Controller: FPS BOSA. General privacy policy (roughly 20,000 characters). Measurement: 44 requests, a single domain, captured on a clean browser.

Declared versus actual

The measurement shows a fully self-sufficient page. All resources — markup, styles, scripts, images, and fonts — are loaded from the proprietary domain bosa.belgium.be, hosted on the state Belnet network (the response passes through a Varnish cache). Fonts are served locally, with no requests to external font services. There are no external domains in the measurement at all: no analytics, no Google, no maps, no advertising pixels, no session recording. Checking the proprietary domain’s paths revealed no hidden analytics or build endpoints. No cookies are set (zero Set-Cookie).

The cookie policy of the belgium.be portal, administered by FPS BOSA, describes audience measurement via Matomo-Cloud (data centers in Europe) subject to consent. In this session, Matomo does not fire — no requests to it appear in the measurement. No substantive “declared versus actual” discrepancy therefore arises: the declared analytics tool is not activated here, and there are no third-party trackers.

Timing relative to consent

All requests go to the proprietary domain. No third-party resources requiring consent are present on the page; no cookies are set. For a government site, this is exemplary behavior.

What cannot be claimed from the measurement

The measurement covers the bosa.belgium.be homepage. The Matomo tool declared in the cookie policy may be activated after consent, or on other sections of the belgium.be portal not covered by this measurement. Server-side processing is not visible in a browser-based measurement.

Conclusion

The Federal Public Service for Policy and Support — the body responsible for Belgium’s digital government and state cookie guidance — demonstrates a clean configuration on its own site as measured: all resources and fonts are hosted locally, there are no external requests whatsoever, no trackers or cookies are present, and Matomo does not activate before consent. No violations recorded in this measurement.