Legal notice
DISCLAIMER
Important legal information
The Brussels Finance and Budget portal is published under the liability of the Brussels Regional Public Service. Through this portal, the Administration makes available to the general public a range of information relating to Brussels’ public finances.
The information contained in this website is the result of substantial work involving the preparation, verification and presentation of the content.
Some parts of this website popularise subjects related to Brussels public finances. These sections are intended to explain certain basic principles in understandable language and are purely informative in nature.
The Administration is committed to updating all information. If errors persist despite this, corrections will be made as soon as they are reported.
All the information contained in the Brussels Finance and Budget portal is subject, among other things, to legislation on the respect of copyright, the protection of databases, the protection of privacy and the Law of 7 March 2007 transposing Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information.
Compulsory legal notices
Identification of the editor:
Name and address of the editor
Julie Fiszman
Place Saint-Lazare 2
1035 Brussels
Identification of the technical department:
Brussels Finances and Budget
Place Saint-Lazare 2
1035 Brussels
Disclaimer
Complaints
The user of the information contained in these pages waives the right to lodge any complaint, of whatever nature, concerning the use of the information made available via the system, whether this complaint is lodged against the Belgian State or against any other body that provided the disseminated information.
Risks
The user further undertakes to assume all the risks inherent in the use of the system, including the risk that computers, software or data may be damaged by any virus that may have been transmitted or activated through the system or by the user’s access to the system.
Settlement of disputes
Any dispute concerning this website and/or its content is subject to Belgian law and falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Brussels courts.
Hypertext links
A direct link can be created to a content page of the Brussels Finance and Budget portal, without prior authorisation.
However, it is forbidden to embed all or part of the Brussels Finance and Budget portal in a frame (e.g. using the encapsulation technique) or to use any other technique with the intention of deliberately concealing the original address and the legal notices.
Indication of data origin and intellectual property
a. Mandatory information on the origin of the data
The Law of 7 March 2007 deals with the re-use of public information and data for commercial and non-commercial purposes. The following terms and conditions apply to the reuse of data.
1) for non-commercial use:
The user must mention: © SPRB BRUSSELS FINANCE AND BUDGET, link to the website, followed by the year of re-use of the data.
The finances-budget.brussels link will be associated with the finances-budget.brussels url and made clickable. For example: © SPRB BRUSSELS FINANCES AND BUDGET, finances-budget.brussels
2) for commercial use:
The user must mention: © BRPB BRUSSELS FINANCE AND BUDGET (the date of the data update) + (the short or long url of the website page from which the data is taken).
The finances-budget.brussels link will be associated with the finances-budget.brussels url and made clickable. For example: 2013, finances-budget.brussels (example with short url).
b. Data reproduction and reuse
Reuse of the data is free of charge. This free access does not exclude certain restrictions regarding the extraction and re-use of data from the Brussels Finance and Budget portal.
Copyright and database protection
The legislation on copyright (Law of 30 June 1994) and on the legal protection of databases (Law of 31 August 1998), among others, applies to the entire Brussels Finance and Budget portal and its content.
In the event of commercial use, the reuse, extraction, duplication or reproduction of data and computer code are subject to prior request.
The person or organisation reusing the data from the Brussels Finance and Budget portal may not alter it. They must ensure that the integrity and nature of the administrative document or its html/xml code are respected. Modification of the html code is subject to a prior written request
Contact
Any questions should be sent by email to bfb.communication@sprb.brussels or by post to The Coordination Unit at Place Saint-Lazare, 2 1035 Brussels.