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On 1st December 2004, 25 municipalities located along and in the neighbourhood of the Scheldt signed the “Scheldt charter”. It stipulated the obligation to further formalize the legal aspects of the close collaboration between the local authorities. It is in this context we need to situate the foundation of the intermunicipal collaboration Scheldt-Landscape Park (IGS-SLP).
The Schelde-Landschapspark is a service-providing intermunicipal collaboration between the participating Scheldt municipalities in the field of mobility, industry and trade, agriculture, housing and infrastructure, nature, recreation and tourism.
The Intermunicipal Collaboration Scheldt National Park aims at providing its participants, at their request, supporting services in the policymaking areas belonging to municipal competence. In the very same context, it boosts and gives the collaboration between the participating municipalities a permanent character, and it develops and perpetuates the initiatives created in the field of ground-based and water-related property development and municipal patrimony management.
The memorandum of association was signed on 15th July 2008 by 13 municipalities: Bornem, Brasschaat, Buggenhout, Hemiksem, Kruibeke, Merelbeke, Niel, Puurs, Schelle, Temse, Waasmunster, Wetteren and Zwijndrecht. |
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On 10th October 2008, the Flemish government approved its foundation, which gave the Scheldt National Park its legal structure. According to the dispositions of the decree on the intermunicipal collaboration of 6th July 2001 and according to the IGS-SLP’s statutes, the IGS-SLP operates as an LLP (limited liability partnership).
On 5th May 2009, the IGS-SLP’s General Assembly approved the entry of the municipalities of Beveren and Sint-Amands, so that presently 15 municipalities constitute the IGS-SLP.