Legislation 45% open

Belgium

Belgium is ranked #34 for this dataset
Belgium's Index ranking for legislation is up from #47 in 2013

What data is expected?

This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.

What data is available

  •   Does the data exist? Yes
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
  •   Available in bulk? No
  •   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

Structure of laws / law books could be improved: most legislation is available in HTML, but it misses semantic markup. Jurisprudence can be searched / viewed in a flash-based application.

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Pieter-Jan Pauwels
  • Sander van der Waal

Submitters

  • Bart Hanssens
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson