Letter from Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), to Jan Jambon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finances and Pensions of Belgium, in charge of the National Lottery and the Federal Cultural Institutions, on a request for an ECB opinion on certain provisions of a draft law containing miscellaneous provisions
Date: 2025-12-08
Institutions: European Central Bank
Subjects: institutional activity, legal basis

ECB-PUBLIC 

Frank Elderson  
Member of the Executive Board 

Mr Jan Jambon 

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finances  

and Pensions, in charge of the National Lottery  

and the Federal Cultural Institutions  

Wetstraat 12 

1000 Brussels 

BELGIUM 

Frankfurt am Main, 08.12.2025 

Contact person: Niall Lenihan 

Niall.Lenihan@ecb.europa.eu 
tel.: +49175229694 

Request  for  an  ECB  opinion  on  certain  provisions  of  a  draft  law  containing  miscellaneous 

provisions 

Dear Deputy Prime Minister and Minister, 

Thank you for your letter of 13 November requesting an opinion of the European Central Bank (ECB) on 

certain provisions of a draft law containing miscellaneous provisions (hereinafter the ‘draft law’). 

After careful consideration, the ECB has decided not to adopt an opinion in the present case as the draft 

law only touches marginally on the ECB’s fields of competence pursuant to Articles 127(4) and 282(5) of 

the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in conjunction with Article 2(1), third indent, of Council 

Decision 98/415/EC1.  

In reaching its decision not to adopt an opinion, the ECB took into particular account that the amendments 

introduced  by  the  draft  law  to  the  law  of  8  July  2018  regarding  the  organisation  of  a  central  register  of 

accounts  and  financial  contracts  and  extending  the  access  to  the  central  register  of  seizure  notices, 

delegation, transfer or collective settlement of debts, and protest 2 only provide for additional recordings to 

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Council Decision 98/415/EC of 29 June 1998 on the consultation of the European Central Bank by national authorities 
regarding draft legislative provisions (OJ L 189, 3.7.1998, p. 42, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/1998/415/oj). 
Wet van 8 juli 2018 houdende organisatie van een centraal aanspreekpunt van rekeningen en financiële contracten 
en tot uitbreiding van de toegang tot het centraal bestand van berichten van beslag, delegatie, overdracht, collectieve 
schuldenregeling en protest/ Loi du 8 juillet 2018 portant organisation d’un point de contact central des comptes et 
contrats financiers et portant extension de l’accès au fichier central des avis de saisie, de délégation, de cession, de 
règlement collectif de dettes et de protêt. 

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be made in the Central Point of Contact for accounts and financial contracts maintained by the Nationale 

Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique. 

The ECB appreciates that you have sent the draft law to the ECB for consultation and remains confident 

that you will continue to consult the ECB on future draft legislative provisions that fall within the ECB’s fields 

of competence under the Treaty and Decision 98/415/EC. 

Yours sincerely, 

Cc: 

Mr Pierre Wunsch, Governor, Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de 

Belgique 

Mr Tom Van Caekenberghe 

Mr Felix Desmyttere 

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