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• Examiners: Canada  & Switzerland
• Field visit: Burundi (Annex D)
• Next peer review due: 2015

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A legal basis for the 0.7% ODA/GNI target: good practice by Belgium

In 2002, at the United Nations’ Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development, Belgium committed to reaching an ODA/GNI ratio of 0.7% by 2010. In the same year, it changed its Law for State Accountancy of 17 July 1991 to include a paragraph that determines that the government must include a “solidarity note” in its budget justification (exposé général). The latter is a detailed document that accompanies the budget submission, but is not subject to a vote. This “solidarity note” shall explain “the measures [the government] envisages taking with a view to attaining, at the latest from 2010 onward, 0.7% of gross national income for the funds dedicated to Belgian ODA, according to a calendar of sustained yearly growth, and in line with the criteria established at the DAC of the OECD” (RdB, 2002b, Titre XI, chap.3, art. 458; and RdB, 1991, Art.10). The revised Law on State Accountancy has been in force since 10 January 2003, and a two-page “solidarity note” has been part of every budget justification since then. (Box 2 p.45)

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