2007 (PDF, 2.81 MB) - Belgium

the reorganisation of the P&S4 Department to prepare
personnel for the new challenges facing them
(recruitment – partially completed – of ten extra personnel
to make up the Conference Centre Team);
>>the preparation of a marketing plan (synergy,
media tools, website, prospectus, and so on) and
a short-term budget;
>>the organisation or supervision, since 31 May
2007, of some 25 paying events.
Conference Management Team
In addition to the major CC Egmont project, P&S set
up the Conference Management Team to help fellow
personnel from the DGs prepare and organise largescale
international conferences, such as the ‘Good
Governance’ conference in the spring and the Global
Forum on Migration and Development in the summer.
Regular missions
It is also worth mentioning that P&S’s day-today
maintenance tasks at Egmont Palace and Val
Duchesse are continuing, as well as the organisation
- here and in the new large Egmont II conference
hall - of hundreds of meetings and conferences on
Belgian foreign policy.
Nobility and honours
Pursuant to the law of 1 May 2006 on the awarding
of honorary distinctions within the Honours List and
the Royal Decree of 15 October 2006 establishing
the rules and procedure for the awarding of honorary
distinctions within the Honours List – both published
in the Belgian Official Gazette of 24 October
2006, the Honours Department – in close cooperation
with the Prime Minister’s departments – has already
drawn up a number of specific regulations and
equivalences in the public sector, such as for federal
civil servants, the integrated police services and educational
personnel. Other regulations will follow.
The Honours Department also prepared a convenient
guide that will be made available to the administrations
involved and provided assistance for the publications
“De Belgische Nationale Orden” and “Les
Ordres nationaux belges” [“The Belgian Honours List”
in Dutch and French respectively], edited by P. Van
Hoorebeeke (Uga, Heule, 2007).
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