Federal Public Service Interior
The FPS Interior (
identification of natural persons, the immigration
policy and for guaranteeing public order and safety.
The acronym IBZ comes from a mixture of its French and Dutch names, Intérieur Binnenlandse Zaken.
The FPS Interior is responsible to the Federal Minister of the Interior, Institutional Reforms and Democratic Renewal, Annelies Verlinden, since October 2020.
Organisations
The FPS Interior is organised into five Directorates-General:
- The Directorate-General for Institutions and Population
- National Register
- eID
- Elections
- Three freedom of information commissions
- The Directorate-General for Civil Security
- The Belgian Civil Protection falls under this Directorate-General
- The Directorate-General Crisis Centre
- The Directorate-General for Security and Prevention Policy
- The Immigration Service