Belgium: Legal Response to Covid-19 » Belgium [be] Emmanuel Slautsky, Frédéric Bouhon, Camille Lanssens, Andy Jousten, Xavier Miny Content type Encyclopedia entries DOI: 10.1093/law-occ19/e1.013.1 Except where the text indicates the contrary, the law is as it stood on: 23 December 2020 1. Belgium is a federal, parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with a codified Constitution first adopted in 1831 and amended regularly since the 1970s. The Constitution was renumbered in 1994.