SoiLEX - Soil related legal instruments and soil governance
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- Code Bruxellois de l'Aménagement du Territoire (CoBAT). Date of text: 05-06-2004
(Brussels) - Ordinance on Environmental Permits Date of text: 05-06-1997
(Brussels) - Codified Decrees Flemish Codex Spatial Planning (Flemish Codex Spatial Planning, VCRO). Date of text: 15-05-2009
(Flanders) - Decision on Environmental Damage Date of text: 13-07-2013
(Flanders) - Decree on Environmental Damage Date of text: 21-12-2007
(Flanders) - Decree on Soil Remediation and Soil Protection Date of text: 27-10-2006
(Flanders) - Agricultural Code Date of text: 27-03-2014
(Wallonia) - Climate Decree (1) (M.B. 10.03.2014). Date of text: 20-02-2014
(Wallonia) - Decree Concerning Environmental Permits Date of text: 11-03-1999
(Wallonia) - Decree on the Management of Soils. Date of text: 01-03-2018
(Wallonia) - Environment Code. Date of text: 05-12-2008
(Wallonia) - Territorial Development Code. Date of text: 01-06-2017
(Wallonia) - Walloon Forest Code. Date of text: 15-07-2008
(Wallonia) - Decree on the General Provision on Environmental Policy Date of text: 05-04-1995
(Flanders) - Strategy for Sustainable Development (27/06/2013). Date of text: 27-06-2013
(Wallonia)
- Decree on the Management and remediation of Soils Date of text: 23-03-2018
(Wallonia) - Ordinance amending certain provisions of the Ordinance of 5 March 2009 on the management and remediation of polluted soil, 2017; Date of text: 13-07-2017
(Brussels) - Ordinance on the Management and Cleanup of Soils Date of text: 05-03-2009
(Brussels) - Decree on Soil Remediation and Soil Protection Date of text: 27-10-2006
(Flanders) - Sustainable Management of Nitrates in Agriculture Programme. Date of text: 12-09-2014
(Wallonia)
- Decree on sustainable use of pesticides in the Flemish Region. Date of text: 08-02-2013
(Flanders) - Decree Concerning Environmental Permits Date of text: 11-03-1999
(Wallonia) - Decree on the General Provision on Environmental Policy Date of text: 05-04-1995
(Flanders)
- Decision on the Granting of Subsidies against Erosion, Floods and Mudslides. Date of text: 18-01-2007
(Wallonia) - Water Code Date of text: 03-03-2005
(Wallonia) - Agricultural Code Date of text: 27-03-2014
(Wallonia) - Climate Decree (1) (M.B. 10.03.2014). Date of text: 20-02-2014
(Wallonia) - Decree on the Management of Soils. Date of text: 01-03-2018
(Wallonia) - Environment Code. Date of text: 05-12-2008
(Wallonia) - Flood Risk Management Plans (2016-2021). Date of text: 26-02-2016
(Wallonia) - Territorial Development Code. Date of text: 01-06-2017
(Wallonia) - Plan for the Prevention of Floods and Their Effects on Flood Victims. Date of text: 09-01-2003
(Wallonia) - Decree on the Management and remediation of Soils Date of text: 23-03-2018
(Wallonia) - Decree on the General Provision on Environmental Policy Date of text: 05-04-1995
(Flanders)
- Decree of the Flemish Government establishing a regional urban development regulation on rainwater wells, infiltration facilities, buffer facilities and separate discharge of waste water and rainwater. Date of text: 05-07-2013
(Flanders) - Code Bruxellois de l'Aménagement du Territoire (CoBAT). Date of text: 05-06-2004
(Brussels) - Circulaire on Permits Delivered in Flood-Risk Area and to the Prevention of Land Sealing. Date of text: 04-03-2003
(Wallonia) - Marshall Plan 2022. Date of text: 19-12-2013
(Wallonia) - Flood Risk Management Plans (2016-2021). Date of text: 26-02-2016
(Wallonia) - Plan for the Prevention of Floods and Their Effects on Flood Victims. Date of text: 09-01-2003
(Wallonia)
- Ordinance amending certain provisions of the Ordinance of 5 March 2009 on the management and remediation of polluted soil, 2017; Date of text: 13-07-2017
(Brussels) - Ordinance on the Management and Cleanup of Soils Date of text: 05-03-2009
(Brussels) - Protection of Water Against Pollution by Nitrates from Agricultural Sources Date of text: 19-11-1998
(Brussels) - Action program to implement the Nitrates Directive 2015-2018. Date of text: 01-01-2015
(Flanders) - Decree on sustainable use of pesticides in the Flemish Region. Date of text: 08-02-2013
(Flanders) - Decree on the Sustainable Management of the Life Cycle of Materials and Waste Date of text: 23-12-2011
(Flanders) - .Decision of the Walloon Government Regulating the Use on or in the Soil of Sewage Sludge or Sludge from Facilities Treating Septic Tanks Slush Date of text: 12-01-1995
(Wallonia) - Decree Concerning Waste Date of text: 27-06-1996
(Wallonia) - Sustainable Management of Nitrates in Agriculture Programme. Date of text: 12-09-2014
(Wallonia) - The Walloon Decree Implementing a Framework for Pesticide Use Compatible with Sustainable Development Date of text: 10-07-2013
(Wallonia) - Marshall Plan 2022. Date of text: 19-12-2013
(Wallonia) - Waste-Resource Plan. Date of text: 22-03-2018
(Wallonia) - Decision on Environmental Damage Date of text: 13-07-2013
(Flanders) - Decree on Environmental Damage Date of text: 21-12-2007
(Flanders) - Decree on the Management and remediation of Soils Date of text: 23-03-2018
(Wallonia) - Decree on Soil Remediation and Soil Protection Date of text: 27-10-2006
(Flanders) - Decree Concerning Environmental Permits Date of text: 11-03-1999
(Wallonia) - Decree on the Management of Soils. Date of text: 01-03-2018
(Wallonia) - Water Code Date of text: 03-03-2005
(Wallonia) - Strategy for Sustainable Development (27/06/2013). Date of text: 27-06-2013
(Wallonia)
- Flood Risk Management Plans (2016-2021). Date of text: 26-02-2016
(Wallonia) - Decree on Integrated Water Management Date of text: 18-07-2003
(Flanders) - Circulaire on Permits Delivered in Flood-Risk Area and to the Prevention of Land Sealing. Date of text: 04-03-2003
(Wallonia) - Plan for the Prevention of Floods and Their Effects on Flood Victims. Date of text: 09-01-2003
(Wallonia) - Decision on the Granting of Subsidies against Erosion, Floods and Mudslides. Date of text: 18-01-2007
(Wallonia) - Water Code Date of text: 03-03-2005
(Wallonia) - Strategy for Sustainable Development (27/06/2013). Date of text: 27-06-2013
(Wallonia) - Agricultural Code Date of text: 27-03-2014
(Wallonia) - Climate Decree (1) (M.B. 10.03.2014). Date of text: 20-02-2014
(Wallonia) - Environment Code. Date of text: 05-12-2008
(Wallonia) - Territorial Development Code. Date of text: 01-06-2017
(Wallonia)
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