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Method and instruments: Advice and sucsession

Each inspection report ends with an advice to the Minister. There are 3 possibilities:

  • favourable, or advice 1;
  • limited favourable, or advice 2;
  • unfavourable, or advice 3.

After the advice the regulations on succession controls are explained. The Decree of 8 May 2009 (art. 39, 40 and 41) introduces the following changes:

  • A succession control can lead to formulating new shortcomings;
  • In case of an unfavourable advice and only after an unfavourable advice the Inspectorate indicates whether or not the institution can remedy the determined shortcomings without external support;
  • After an unfavourable advice an institution can submit an improvement plan which, when approved can suspend the withdrawal of the continuation for at least one and at the most three years;
  • Anyway, after an unfavourable advice a new audit by a joint board will follow within 3 months, or within the last three months of the suspension period, aimed at previously formulated shortcomings;
  • The joint board can now give a limited favourable advice too.

In case of favourable advice the Inspectorate has full confidence that there is sufficient professionalism and readiness present in the institution to continue her development with quality, and she will not carry out any succession controls.