Intermunicipal

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In Belgium, an association of provinces, municipalities and / or private companies for joint management of tasks (special purpose association) is referred to as inter-communal (French and Dutch intercommunal ) .

Legal basis

The legal basis is Article 162 of the Belgian Constitution, which states: “In execution of a law adopted by the majority as defined in Article 4, last paragraph, the decree or rule referred to in Article 134 regulates under what conditions and how several provinces, several supra-communal bodies or several municipalities may agree or unite. "

In Wallonia , intermunicipalities were first regulated by the decree of December 5, 1996 (Belgian Official Journal of February 7, 1997), which was fundamentally changed by the Decree of July 19, 2006 (Official Gazette of 23 August 2006). In Flanders , the legal basis was only laid with the decree of July 6, 2001 (Belgian Official Gazette of October 31, 2001).

Types and legal forms

There are purely intermunicipal entities that are 100% owned by the public sector , as well as mixed intermunicipal entities in which private providers - mostly banks or chambers of commerce - are involved. The most common legal form in Wallonia is the cooperative with limited liability (Gen.mbH or French Société coopérative à responsabilité limitée or SCRL). There are also some non-profit associations (VoG or Association sans but lucratif ASBL), while the stock corporation is very rare .

Areas

The intermunicipal offices cover areas such as energy supply, healthcare, waste management, financing and economic development.

Examples

  • IDELUX
  • ILvA ( Intercommunale voor het Land van Aalst )
  • OVV ( Opera voor Vlaanderen )
  • Sibelga
  • Inter-municipal services for social and health services in the communities of Amel, Büllingen, Burg-Reuland, Bütgenbach and Sankt Vith

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Constitution of Belgium , p. 72.
  2. ^ Belgian State Gazette of 23 August 2006