Questionnaire Belgium
II.6 Instructions in individual cases:
In exercising his right of supervision, the
Minister of Justice can give the order to the public prosecution service to
initiate proceedings in a particular case (sect. 274 CPP). This right – which
seems to be seldom used – is not further regulated in the legislation. However
it is clear that the Minister of Justice does not have the right to dictate to
the public prosecutor in charge of a case what he must say in court, or the
right to forbid a prosecution or to order the discontinuation of a prosecution.
