Province and district archives
Provinces
- Not older than 30 years: Authorisation from Director-General required
- Older than 30 years but not freely accessible due to legal restrictions, for example with regard to the protection of privacy and personal data: Authorisation from National Archivist or his/her representative and signed research declaration required.
- Older than 30 years but without legal restrictions: freely accessible
| Legal framework |
- Archives law of 24 June 1955 amended by the law of 6 May 2009
- Flanders: Governance decree of 7 December 2018 - Title II, Chapter 3, about access to administrative documents; Flemish government decision on requests for scientific publications, referred to in article II.38 of the governance decree of 7 December 2018
- Wallonia: Law of 12 November 1997 about the publicity of the administration in the provinces and municipalities, codified in articles L3211-1 to L3231-9 of the Local Democracy and Devolution Code
- Brussels: Joint decree and ordinance of the Brussels-Capital Region, the Common Community Commission and the French Community Commission of 16 May 2019 about the publicity of the administration in the Brussels institutions
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on data protection and law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data
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District commissioner’s office
The district commissioner is a commissioner of both the federal government and the regional government. The archival rules therefore depend on the framework in which the archives were produced.
Brussels and Wallonia:
- Archives produced in the exercise of federal or provincial powers
- Not older than 30 years: authorisation of the Director-General required
- Older than 30 years but not freely accessible due to legal restrictions, for example with regard to the protection of privacy and personal data: Authorisation from National Archivist or his/her representative and signed research declaration required
- Older than 30 years but without legal restrictions: freely accessible
- Archives produced in the exercise of regional powers:
- Authorisation from the Director-General required
| Legal framework |
- Archives law of 24 June 1955 amended by the law of 6 May 2009
- Wallonia: Decree of 30 March 1995 about the publicity of the of the administration
- Brussels-Capital Region: Ordinance of 30 March 1995 about the publicity of the administration, ordinance of 18 March 2004 about environmental information and ordinance of 19 March 2009 about the archives of the Brussels-Capital Region
- Regulation (UE) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on data protection and law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data
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Flanders:
- Archives produced in the exercise of federal or provincial powers
- Not older than 30 years: authorisation of the Director-General required
- Older than 30 years but not freely accessible due to legal restrictions, for example with regard to the protection of privacy and personal data: Authorisation from National Archivist or his/her representative and signed research declaration required.
- Older than 30 years but without legal restrictions: freely accessible
- Archives produced in the exercise of regional powers:
- Not older than 20 years or between 20 and 120 years old but not freely accessible due to legal restrictions, for example with regard to the protection of privacy and personal data: Authorisation from the Director-General required
- Older than 120 years: freely accessible (if the person concerned is deceased since more than 20 years)
| Legal framework |
- Archives law of 24 June 1955 amended by the law of 6 May 2009
- Regulation (UE) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on data protection and law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data
- Governance decree of 7 December 2018 - Title II, Chapter 3, about access to administrative documents; Flemish government decision on requests for scientific publications, referred to in article II.38 of the governance decree of 7 December 2018
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