Aldermen
Schöffe ( Dutch : schepen , French : échevin , Luxembourgish : Schäffen ) refers to an alderman of the mayor in Belgium and Luxembourg .
Belgium
In Belgium , lay judges are elected councilors to the mayor. They roughly correspond to what a minister is in a national government or a department head in some German municipalities. The mayor and his aldermen form the so-called mayors and aldermen's college (BSK), which has been called the municipal college in the Walloon region since 2006 .
The municipal council members choose the lay judges from their ranks, the number of which is between 2 and 10 depending on the size of the municipality. Each of these lay judges is responsible for executing a large number of areas of responsibility, for example there is a finance judge, a school judge, etc. Since 2006, EU citizens who do not have Belgian citizenship are also allowed to become lay judges.
Luxembourg
In Luxembourg , the lay judges are councilors of the mayor who are elected members of the municipal council. The mayor and his aldermen form the so-called aldermen's council (Luxembourgish: Schäfferot , French: collège des bourgmestre et échevins ). In principle there are two lay judges in every community; Notwithstanding this, the number of lay judges can be determined by grand ducal resolution as follows: 3 in the municipalities with 10,000–19,999 inhabitants; 4 in the municipalities with 20,000 inhabitants and more; a maximum of 6 in Luxembourg City (status there in 2014: 5 lay judges).
