Article 141 [Prevention of Responsibility Conflicts]
The law organizes procedures tending to foresee conflicts
between laws, decrees, and rulings described in Article
134, in addition to between decrees among themselves
and the rulings described in Article 134 among
themselves.
Article 142 [Court of Arbitration, i.e. Constitutional Court]
(1) There is, for all of Belgium, a Court of Arbitration
, the
composition, competencies, and functioning of which are
established by law.
(2) This court statutes by means of ruling on:
1) those conflicts described in Article 141;
2) the violation through a law, a decree, or a ruling as
described in Article 134 of Articles 10, 11, and
24;
3) the violation through a law, a decree, or through a ruling as
described in Article 134, of constitutional articles
determined by law.
(3) The court may be solicited by any authority designated by
law, by any person with justified interests, or, on an
interlocutory basis, by any jurisdiction.
(4) Those laws described in Paragraph (1), in Paragraph (2), 3),
and in Paragraph (3) are adopted by majority vote as described
in Article 4, last paragraph.
Article 143 [Prevention and Settling of Conflicts of Interest]
(1) In the exercise of their respective responsibilities, the
Federal Government, the Communities, the Regions, and the
common Community Commission act in the interests of federal
loyalty, in order to prevent conflicts of interest.
(2) The Senate makes decisions, by means of well-founded
judgments, on conflicts of interest which may exist between the
various bodies through laws, decrees, or rulings as described in
Article 134, within the conditions and according to the
procedures determined by a law adopted by majority vote as
described in Article 4, last paragraph.
(3) A law adopted by majority vote as described in 4, last
paragraph organizes the procedures designed to prevent and
to settle conflicts of interest between Federal, Community, and
Regional Governments, and between the common Community
Commission assembly.
(4) Concerning the prevention and the settling of conflicts of
interest, the ordinary law of 9 Aug 1980 regarding institutional
reform remains valid; it nonetheless can be rescinded,
completed, modified, or replaced only by those laws described
in Paragraphs (2) and (3).