Composition

The Oversight Committee consists of six permanent members and six substitutes, including:

  • three external members:
    • magistrates of the judiciary;
    • appointed by the House of Representatives:
      • proposed by the Council of Ministers,
      • following the unanimous and joint opinion of the First President and the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation;
  • three Commission members, including at least one magistrate.

The President is an external member who is a magistrate of the judiciary.

The Committee's current members are listed in the table below.
(D = Dutch native speaker / F = French native speaker)

Presidency

Mr Luc Hennart (F)

Councillor at the Brussels Court of Appeal

Working members

Mrs Mireille Salmon (F)

Councillor at the Brussels Court of Appeal

Mr Yves Roger (F)

President of the Sector Committee of Social Security and of Health

Mr Frank Schuermans (D)

Solicitor General at the Ghent Court of Appeal

Mr Henri Debucquoy (D)

Councillor at the Ghent Court of Appeal

Mrs Nicole van Isterdael (D)

Chairman at the Ghent Court of Appeal

Substitute members

Mrs Marie-Ange Lange (F),
substitute President

Councillor at the Liège Court of Appeal

Mrs Nicole Lepoivre (F)

Honorary Chairwoman of the Huy Industrial Tribunal

Mrs Anne Junion (F)

Lawyer

Mr Willem Debeuckelaere (D)

President of the Commission

Mr Walter Peeters (D)

Councillor –Permanent member of the Standing police monitoring Committee (Comité P)

Mr Thierry Freyne (F)

Examining magistrate at the Brussels Court of First Instance