> Economy

related but distinct subjects :
agriculture
energy

Economic policy is a regional responsibility. It includes economic expansion policy, innovation policy, restructuring policy and the public industrial initiative. It also includes the regional aspects of credit policy, including the creation and management of public credit organisations, outlet and export policy and natural resources.

Certain standards nevertheless remain the responsibility of the Federal Authority:
-  The general rules on public contracts, consumer protection, organisation of the economy, and ceilings for aid to companies for economic expansion (which may only be changed with the consent of the Regions).
-   Financial policy and protection of savings, including the regulation and control of financial institutions and insurance companies and the non-regional aspects of credit policy.
-   Prices and incomes policy.
-  Commercial law and company law.
-  Conditions for access to professions.
-   Intellectual and industrial property.
-   Quotas and licenses.
-   Metrology and standardisation.
-   Statistical secrecy.
-   Public companies including: Belgocontrol (air traffic control), BIAC (company that manages Brussels Airport), the Post Office, the Federal Company of Shareholdings (SFP), the Belgian National Railway Company (SNCB).

Monetary policy is now decided at a European level.

The communes and intercomunal companies may play the role of organising authority in initiatives to foster local economic development.

 

legal basis :
Constitution, art. 39
LSRI of 8/08/1980, art. 6, §1, alinea VI