http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=15786&name=Communes+still+wary+of+electronic+ID+cards+
"Belgium's bid to introduce a state-of-the-art electronic ID card throughout the country has again been criticised.
The federal government wants to issue the new cards in each and every local authority after a successful pilot scheme was introduced in 2003 in 11 communes.
The move would make Belgium one of the first EU countries to make the cards the norm."
