Belgium’s Constitution of 1831 with Amendments through 2014

Judicial Independence

  
Article 151. 1. Judges are independent in the exercise of their jurisdictional competences. […]
 

Judicial Council or Parallel Institution

  
Article 151. 2. There is one High Council of Justice for all Belgium. In the exercise of its competences, the High Council of Justice respects the independence referred to in § 1. • Establishment of judicial council The High Council of Justice is composed of a Dutch-speaking college and of a French-speaking college. Each college comprises an equal number of members and is constituted with equal representation, on the one hand, of judges and officers of the public prosecutor’s office elected directly by their peers under the conditions and in the manner determined by the law and, on the other hand, of other members appointed by the Senate by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast, under conditions established by the law. […]
 

Attorney General’s Office

  
Article 151. 1 […] The public prosecutor is independent in conducting individual investigations and prosecutions, without prejudice to the right of the competent minister to order prosecutions and to prescribe binding directives on criminal policy, including policy on investigations and prosecutions. […]