As the member state holding the EU Presidency this half-year, Belgium plans to set an example on the transposition of EU directives into national law. The country’s State Secretary for European Affairs, Olivier Chastel, briefed his Belgian colleagues in the Council of Ministers, in Brussels on 20 July, on the progress of transposition. According to Chastel, 26 directives - of which 22 of federal competence - still have to be transposed into Belgian law before the deadline of 10 November 2010, the date of notification to the European Commission for the scoreboard. “We can conclude, judging from the progress so far, that 15 directives seem transposable by then.” The federal level is concerned by 69 of 113 infringement procedures opened by the Commission. The state secretary invited all the authorities concerned to give priority to bringing the transposition process to “early conclusion”.