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 Netherlands

1. Legal Gazette

 1.1. Overview

Staatsblad — Staatscourant — Tractatenblad
State Journal — State Gazette — Treaties Bulletin

Published by:
Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid — Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties — Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken
(Ministry of Justice and Security — Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations — Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Tel.
E-mail
Website

Official journal / legal gazette The Staatsblad, Staatscourant and Tractatenblad contain parts with legislation as well as parts with legal notices and other official texts; see point 1.2 for details.
First edition Staatsblad (State Journal ): 1813; Staatscourant (State Gazette): 1813; Tractatenblad (Treaties Bulletin): 1951
First online edition Staatsblad: 1995; Staatscourant: 1995; Tractatenblad: 1995
Paper edition On 1 July 2009 the paper editions of Staatsblad, Staatscourant and Tractatenblad are abandoned.
Online edition http://www.officielebekendmakingen.nl
Available texts: PDF from 1995; HTML from 1998; XML from 2003
CD/DVD edition No CD/DVD edition

 1.2. Details on the legal gazette in general

Content

I. Staatsblad (State Journal): Formal laws and Royal decrees (wetten in formele zin, algemene maatregelen van bestuur, koninklijke besluiten) and other acts such as the royal amnesty decisions

II. Staatscourant (State Gazette): Ministerial decrees and texts which need to be published on the basis of provisions in formal laws, royal or ministerial decrees published by the central Dutch government, as appointed by the Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations, such as disqualification from driving, bankruptcy, administration, re-financing of debt and changes to prenuptial agreements

III. Tractatenblad (Treaties Bulletin): Treaties concluded with other states or international organisations and decisions of international organisations

Legal basis The legal bases for publishing the Staatsblad and the Staatscourant are both the Constitution and the Publication Act, whereas for the publication of the Tractatenblad the legal bases are both the Constitution and the Kingdom Act on the approval and publication of Treaties of 7 July 1994 giving further explanations of Article 91(I) and (II) and Article 95 of the Constitution (Rijkswet goedkeuring en bekendmaking verdragen, 7 July 1994).
Legally binding The online edition is legally binding from 1 July 2009.
Financing State budget (from 1 July 2009)

 1.3. Details on the online edition

http://www.officielebekendmakingen.nl
(Staatsblad, Staatscourant and Tractatenblad)
See also point 1.1

Functionalities

Download

Hyperlinks to other related documents

Format description

PDF

HTML

XML

ODF

Authenticity Users access the website via a secure connection
Archiving According to the Publication Act (Bekendmakingswet), all texts have to remain accessible in the database.

 1.4. Details on the publishing institution

Authority responsible

Staatscourant
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
(Ministry of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations)
Postbus 20011 — 2500 EA The Hague
Netherlands
Tel. +31 704266122
Fax +31 704267600
E-mail: hans.flier@minbzk.nl
Website: http://www.minbzk.nl

Staatsblad
Ministerie van Justitie (Ministry of Justice and Security)
Postbus 20301 — 2500 EH The Hague
Netherlands
Tel. +31 703706875
E-mail: s.slingerland@minjus.nl
Website: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/ministerie-van-justitie-en-veiligheid

Tractatenblad
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Postbus 20061 — 2500 EB The Hague
Netherlands
Tel. +31 703484919
Fax +31 703486000
E-mail: pc.muntinga@minbuza.nl
Website: http://www.minbuza.nl

Publishing body Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)
Form and nature of the publishing body

 

Ministry
Basic tasks of the publishing institution  
  • Pre-press: yes
  • Printing: no
  • Dissemination/distribution: no
  • Legal gazette: yes
  • Legislation database: yes
  • Consolidation: yes

 1.5. Drafting and publishing procedures

Text processing
systems
  • A special text processing system exists in the form of document type definition (DTD), which is used for primary and secondary legislation.
  • A special text processing system exists in the form of document type definition (DTD), which is used for primary and secondary legislation.
Workflow Electronic transmission is generally not part of an integrated and seamless workflow (only for some parts of the official publications).
Publishing Editors of the Staatscourant are in charge of proofreading and editing the texts to be published. The minimum period between the reception of the draft by the publishing workflow and the publication is one day. A period of two to six weeks is involved between the reception of the draft of theTractatenblad by the publishing workflow and its publication. 

2. Collections of consolidated Legislation

Wet- en regelgeving
http://www.wetten.nl
For details, see point 3.2

Body carrying out
consolidation
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
Status of the
consolidated texts
Semi-official collection
Deadline for
consolidation
Between two and five working days

3. Legislative portals and online databases

 3.1. Official portals

 3.2. Official databases

For the Staatsblad — Staatscourant — Tractatenblad online, see point 1.3

Wet- en regelgeving
http://www.wetten.nl

Organisation
responsible
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)
Content The collection comprises all national legislation published in the Staatsblad and Staatscourant, and the more recent treaties published in Tractatenblad, in consolidated and non-consolidated form.
Access Free of charge
Access via N-Lex (see Annex 2) Yes

 3.3. Additional information: other commonly used legal databases

The following hosts disseminate an online edition of EUR-Lex under licence from the Publications Office:

 
OpMaat http://www.sneltotdekern.nl(SDU Uitgevers BV)
vLex http://www.nl.vlex.com/libraries/wetgeving-staatsblad-238
(vLex networks)
Legal Intelligence http://www.legalintelligence.com
Liigl http://www.liigl.nl/