Areas of Belgium

The Belgium is a Federal state composed of Areas and Communautés.

The Régions have an autonomy extended in particular in the fields: of the economy , employment, town and country planning , agriculture , public works , housing , tourism , of energy , the environment , public works , inland waterways , National Forestry Commission S, supervision on the capacities subordinates , of the family policy , the handicapped , the third age (etc), partially of assistance to the people , of teaching (buildings, school transport) or of the inheritance and the ''' communities ''' lays out of it out of cultural matter like out of matter of assistance with the people and teaching .

The autonomy of the Areas, like all Belgian entity federate, is very wide because of the principle of the Exclusive competences which practically make conspicuous the Belgian Fédéralisme by the fact that it prolongs, without reserves, the autonomy of the entities federated on the international scene.

Belgium includes/understands three Areas: the Walloon region, the Flemish Area and the Area of Brussels.

federate entities equipped with wide capacities

Each Area has its government and its Parliament. The Belgian Fédéralisme is built on the concept of the équipollence of the standards, i.e. in a general way, the level federal capacity (Belgian) does not have any precedence compared to the entities federated concerning relative competences of each one of the level of being able.

Thus, a " decree " law voted by a regional Parliament in the field of regional competences cannot be contradicted by a Belgian law. Moreover, as competences of the federate entities theirs are exclusive (on their territory), the same competence cannot be held at the same time by the federate entities and the Belgian State.

In addition, the Belgian federalism envisages since 1993 that the federate entities (Areas, communities) have the right to regulate, for their matters, the international cooperation - including the conclusion of the treaties.

However, it is well on the level of the Belgian constitution and the federal special laws that are given respective competences of the federal state and the entity federate.

Except exception, the King of the Belgians, Head of the Belgian State , does not intervene any more in the process of the political decision on the level of the federate entities. However, the Minister-President of the Walloon region, like his counterparts of the other Belgian federate entities, lends oath to the Belgian Constitution between the hands of the King of the Belgians.

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