Research and Documentation Department 
Federal Public Service Finance

	Who we are and what we do
	Our place within the organization chart
		The publications of the Research and Documentation Department

Who we are and what we do 

The Research and Documentation Department is part of the staff services of the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance. Since 1 January 2003, the former Belgian Federal Ministry of Finance has become the "Federal Public Service Finance", in short "FPS Finance" (Ministerial Decree dd. 18 December 2002).

Most of the tasks of the Research and Documentation Department consist of work preparatory to decisions in the policy areas, in particular public finance, with an emphasis on the macroeconomic aspects of budgetary and tax policy. In this context, the Research and Documentation Department is also in charge of the Secretariat of the High Council of Finance. This implies notably that the reports and opinions of the High Council of Finance are prepared by the staff of the Research and Documentation Department.

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Our place within the organization chart of the Federal Public Service Finance

The place of the Research and Documentation Department within the organization chart of the FPS Finance, the former Belgian Federal Ministry of Finance (Ministerial Decree dd. 18 December 2002).

The Royal Decree dd. 3 December 2009 regulating other departments than operational departments of the Federal Public Service Finance, stipulates that the Research and Documentation Department will be part of the staff service “Strategic Expertise and Support” which is still to be set up.

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