Proposition 51K2002

Projet de loi modifiant la loi du 4 juillet 1962 relative à la statistique publique et la loi du 8 août 1983 organisant un Registre national des personnes physiques.

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Submission date

Sept. 22, 2005

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

protection of privacy national statistics statistics

Voting ¶

Voted to adopt

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Discussion ¶

Feb. 2, 2006 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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Mr. Speaker, I would like to briefly report on my bank. The draft law was discussed at two meetings on 10 and 18 January 2006.

The draft law of the Minister was unanimously adopted by the committee members, as amended.

“Donc, toute la Belgique était d’accord” would Mr. Tant, Chairman of the Committee on Business, say. Therefore, for the reporting of the work, I would like to refer to the written report.

Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to explain the reasons that led me to submit an amendment in the plenary session.

This amendment does not question the project and its important elements at all. He finds his origin in a comment by Ms. Lalieux in commission. She spoke of the interest of having structural processes of "gender mainstreaming" to keep continuously in mind the gender pluralism and the aspect of male/gender complementarity. Indeed, the gender aspect, i.e. the distinction between men and women, is quite indispensable for some statistics. Belgium accuses a certain delay in this matter.

In a committee, however, the Minister did not find it useful to extend the composition of the INS organs to the Institute for Gender Equality before a one-year evaluation period. His argument was primarily budgetary.

The amendment I submit here at the plenary session aims to include the Institute for Equality of Men and Women or Women and Men — more elegantly speaking — in the composition of the two bodies created with the National Institute of Statistics, that is, within the Coordination Committee and the Supreme Council of Statistics. Indeed, the participation of this institute in these two bodies is justified in view of the various tasks that will be entrusted to the National Institute of Statistics.

Finally, I would also like to recall that the production, collection and use of statistics taking into account the gender element and the gender indicator are relevant. Indeed, many commitments undertaken by Belgium, whether at the international or European level, insist on the obligation for Belgium to take into account the gender element in order to collect, use and produce these different statistics. It is for this reason and following the remarks of Mrs. Lalieux in the committee that we have submitted these amendments.

Amendments to articles that have not yet been discussed. It is so. You did this in the form of an intervention in the general discussion.

Mr. Speaker, it is for this reason that I began my speech by saying that I was going to enter the general discussion to defend my amendments which are, indeed, more specific to certain articles.