Chapter 4
in forceThe Public Prosecution Service
Section 1
Tasks and powers
The Public Prosecution Service is charged with the criminal enforcement of the rule of law and with other tasks established by law.
The duties and powers of the Public Prosecution Service shall be exercised, in the manner determined by or pursuant to an Act of Parliament, by:
If a power is granted to the public prosecutor by or pursuant to an Act, this power may be exercised by the judicial officers referred to in Article…
The exercise of one or more powers of the chief public prosecutor, the deputy chief public prosecutor, the senior public prosecutor A, the senior…
Our Minister may issue general and specific instructions regarding the exercise of the tasks and powers of the Public Prosecution Service.
Our Minister shall provide the Board of Procurators General with the opportunity to make its views known before he issues an instruction in a…
The Board shall provide Our Minister with the information that the latter requires.
Section 2
Organization
There is a Board of Procurators General.
The Board of Procurators General cannot take decisions unless at least three members are present.
The Board of Procurators General shall distribute the duties among the Procurators General.
The Board of Procurators General may authorise a Procurator General to exercise one or more of its powers, unless the regulation upon which the power…
The Public Prosecution Service consists of:
The following persons are employed at the Office of the Prosecutor General:
The following persons are employed at a district public prosecutor's office (arrondissementsparket):
The National Public Prosecutor's Office (landelijk parket) employs:
The following persons are employed at the Functional Public Prosecutor's Office (functioneel parket):
The following persons are employed at the Central Processing Office of the Public Prosecution Service:
The following persons are employed at the public prosecutor's office at the court of appeal (ressortsparket):
The heads of the public prosecution offices are, in the exercise of their duties, subordinate to the Board.
The Board may instruct the heads of the district public prosecutor's offices designated by the Board to jointly perform tasks in the field of the…
The Board shall establish regulations determining for which criminal offences the public prosecutor at the National Public Prosecutor's Office…
Section 3
Other provisions
Our Minister may charge a judicial officer as referred to in Article 1, part b, under 5° up to and including 7°, with the performance of the duties…
The judicial officers referred to in Article 142 are obliged to provide information when the Procurator General at the Supreme Court requests such on…
Article 13 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the judicial officers referred to in Article 142.