European Forum of Official Gazettes - Belgium - European Forum of Official Gazettes - Publications Office of the EU (2024)

16 June 1831

• Part I: laws, decrees, ordinances and regulations (pertaining to laws on federal and non-federal levels), some court decisions
• Part II: other acts such as royal and ministerial decrees on all levels (federal and non-federal)
• Part III: official/legal notices
• Part IV: other legal information and communications

• PDF
• HTML
• Images

• Pre-press: yes
• Printing: yes
• Dissemination/distribution: yes
• Legal gazette online: yes
• Legislation database: yes
• Consolidation: yes

• Reading room
• Document information service
• Helpdesk
• Visitor reception

• There is no single integrated electronic workflow system for drafting,adopting and publishing legislation. The publishing body receives information in several text and image formats. Part of the information is delivered on paper.
• The publishing organisation converts these formats into Xyvision layout files and exports them as PostScript and HTML files. The PostScript files are then converted into PDF files for online publishing.
• The HTML files are used in the underlying ‘full-text search’ database.

• The department introducing the publication request (administrations, parliaments, etc.) checks the final proofs before publication. In the case of extreme urgency and for texts of minor importance, proofreading is carried out by the publishing organisation.
• The individual texts are grouped in a publication prepared one day in advance. It is possible for several editions to be published on the same day. In urgent cases, publication can take place within two hours of reception of the text by the publishing organisation, depending on the volume and complexity of the text.
• The paper edition is derived from the electronic PDF edition, which ensures that both editions correspond exactly.
• After publication, some text files are recovered to be used in the ‘consolidated legislation’ database of the Ministry of Justice (see point 2).

All legislative acts that have been published since June 1994 in the Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge.

All legislative acts that were published before June 1994 in the Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge, except tax and administrative law.

The portal is the result of a cooperation agreement between several federal, community and regional institutions. Participating institutions include, for example, the Council of State, parliaments and ministries of the respective language communities (Dutch, French and German).

Launched on 8 March 2005, the portal gives access to Belgian legislation on a federal and non-federal level, as well as to preparatory parliamentary proceedings and case law.
The portal gives, inter alia, access to the following systems: the Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge (see point 1.3 for details);

• database containing consolidated legislation provided by several institutions;
• the database containing the legislative index provided by several institutions.

During the initial stage, the databanks of the participating institutions may be accessed via the Crossroads portals. The second phase will involve linking the various databanks with one another so as to create a fully fledged network while developing a specific application to allow all the databanks to be consulted in a single search operation.

• the Justel database of consolidated law, all legislative acts in consolidated version that have been published since June 1994 in the Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge and legislation even before 1994 except tax and administrative law;
• the legislative index containing only metadata.