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.
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.
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
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.
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.
