Article I
Belgium is a Federal State made up of communities and regions.
Art. 2
Belgium is made up of three communities: The French Community, the Flemish Community and the German Community.
Art. 3
Belgium is made up of three regions: The Walloon region, the Flemish region and the Brussels region.
Art. 4
Belgium has four linguistic regions: The French-speaking region, the
Dutch-speaking region, the bilingual region of Brussels Capital and the
German-speaking region. Each «commune» (county borough) of the
Kingdom is part of one of these linguistic regions.
The limits of the four linguistic regions can only be changed or modified by a law adopted by majority vote in each linguistic group in each Chamber, on the condition that the majority of the members of each group are gathered together and from the moment that the total of affirmative votes given by the two linguistic groups is equal to at least two-thirds of the votes expressed.
Art. 5
The Walloon region is made up of the following provinces: The Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liege, Luxemburg and Namur. The Flemish region is made up of the following provinces: Antwerp, the Flemish Brabant, West Flanders, East Flanders and Limburg.
It lies with the law to divide the territory into a greater number of provinces, if need be.
A law can shield certain territories whose limits it fixes, from division into provinces, make them depend directly on the federal executive power, and make them subject to a statute of their own. This law must be adopted by majority vote as provided for in Article 4, last paragraph.
Art. 6
The provincial sub-divisions can only be established by law.
Art. 7
The limits of the State, the provinces and the «communes» can only be changed or modified by law.
