Investments in tangible fixed assets; business sector

Investments in tangible fixed assets; business sector

SIC 2008 Periods Fixed assets Network / Infrastructure (million euros)
H+J Transport, ICT 2022* .
465 Wholesale of ICT-equipment 2022* .
Source: CBS.
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This table contains figures relating to the investments in tangible fixed assets. The investments have been made by non-financial companies. A distinction is made between different types of fixed assets and between new or second-hand assets. The table also contains information about the disposal of tangible fixed assets.

It distinguishes between seven types of tangible fixed assets:

1. Land;
2. Corporate buildings;
3. Network / Infrastructure;
4. Means of transport;
5. Computers, hardware and peripheral equipment;
6. Machinery and installations;
7. Other tangible fixed assets.

The following are disregarded:
- Investment in stock;
- Investment in foreign locations;
- The value of enterprises that have been acquired whose operational activities are barely affected.

The figures can be broken down into the companies’ activities, according to the Standard Industrial Classification 2008 (SIC 2008).

Data available from: 2009

Status of the figures:
The figures up to and including 2021 are final and the figures of 2022 are provisional.

Changes as of 30 November 2023:
The provisional figures of 2022 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
Roughly a year after the end of the reporting year, the provisional investment figures will be published for the Total Investments in Tangible Fixed Assets for the mineral extraction, industry, energy provision, waterworks and waste management and construction business sectors.Definitive, more specific figures will be made available 18 months after the end of the reporting year for all the business sectors that have been examined, including the five business sectors named above.The figures may be updated if substantial adjustments become necessary.

Description topics

Fixed assets
The tangible or intangible assets produced that are used in the production process for longer than one year.
Network / Infrastructure
Activities relating to land, waterworks and road-building, including the permanent facilities necessary for these activities to be carried out successfully, such as barriers, machinery for opening and closing floodgates and bridges, public lighting and overhead cables for the railways. This item also includes funds expended for land improvement (drainage, raising land levels, etc.) and to make land ready for development.
Examples include: roads; car parks; distribution networks for gas, electricity and water; pipelines to transport oils, chemicals and other liquids or gases.