Date (Creation)

2025-05-22

Date (Revision)

2025-05-22

Citation identifier

BE.NGI-IGN / 76b38eb4-a8df-11f0-b208-00be433d8c24

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Bert Van Mele	products@ngi.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Administrative units

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

• Administrative, statistical and cadastral units

Data.gov.be themes

• Government and public sector

INSPIRE feature concept dictionary

• Administrative Unit

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

• federal government
• local authority

Spatial scope

• National

Keywords

• Abbreviations

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use limitation

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Language

Français

Language

Nederlands; Vlaams

Character set

8859 Part 15

Description

Belgium

Distribution format

Name	Version
Excel

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The names of towns and municipalities are not always unique. This can sometimes cause problems for the government, because it is not always clear which municipality is being referred to. This is certainly a problem when the municipality has to be used as an abbreviation. In order to work more efficiently, the FPS Justice has therefore drawn up a list of unique abbreviations for each city and (sub)municipality. This ensures that all FPS Justice employees refer to a particular city or municipality in the same way. This should make the work of magistrates, registrars, administrators, etc. easier and more efficient. Other government services, companies, organisations and citizens can also benefit from this system. That is why the NGI is making the list publicly available and it will be used as the reference list in Belgium and the only true source for all abbreviations of cities and municipalities in Belgium. It may be used by all government institutions and the private sector.

Metadata

File identifier

756133d3-a8df-11f0-908b-00be433d8c24 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-10-15T11:25:34

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Floor Van Damme	metadata@ngi.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English	UTF8