Federal Council for Sustainable Development Belgium
Name: Federal Council for Sustainable Development (Federale Raad voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling/Conseil Fédéral du Développement Durable, FRDO-CFDD)
Established in: 1997 (as the successor to the National Council for Sustainable Development which functioned as from 1993)
Role: The council provides strategic advice to the Government on issues relating to sustainable development. All members of the federal government can ask the council for an opinion, or the council can issue an opinion or advisory report on its own initiative.
Duties: The Council is tasked to: express opinions on all measures concerning federal policy on sustainable development; provide a forum for exchanging views on sustainable development and propose research in all fields relating to sustainable development.
Composition: The FRDO-CFDD is a multi-stakeholder council and has 24 members with voting rights. Council members represent social partners, environmental, youth, consumers' and development NGOs, or are representatives of scientific bodies, trade unions, employers, and the business community. Representatives of federal and regional ministries also participate as observers to the council.
The secretariat: The FRDO-CFDD has a secretariat that comprises 8 staff members.
