Editing Criminal record (section)

==Belgium==
In [[Belgium]], there is a national central criminal record system which records, keeps and modifies data related to penal decisions. The criminal record system is maintained by the Federal Public Service Justice.<ref name="diplomatie.belgium.be">{{cite web|url=http://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/services/services_abroad/criminal_record/ |title=Criminal record &#124; Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs |website=Diplomatie.belgium.be |date=23 March 2016 |access-date=7 August 2016}}</ref>
The criminal records held within the central system contain the following data: criminal record number; name, surname and given name; date and place of birth; gender; residence; profession; nationality; court; number of judges; degree of jurisdiction; reference, number and date of judgement; date of transmission to central criminal record; sentence pronounced, place and date of the criminal acts.<ref name="books.google.com.au">{{cite journal|last=Simon|first=Julie|journal=Financial Crime in the EU|title=Criminal Records and Organised Crime in Belgium|page=103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_Hy0b_6HyYC&q=belgian+criminal+record+system&pg=PA103|publisher=Kluwer Law International|location=The Hague, The Netherlands|isbn=978-9041123640|date=1 January 2005}}</ref>
The central system contains records of
:a) Penal convictions for all types of offence;
:b) Penal convictions of guilt subjecting the convicted person to a probationary period;
:c) Decisions of revocation of the previous category;
:d) Penal decisions concerning confinement of mentally ill offenders;
:e) Deprivation of parental rights, and reintegration, as well as several measures regarding delinquent minors;
:f) Several decisions which quash prior judgements;
:g) Several decisions of retraction;
:h) Decisions that rectify or interpret the law on which the conviction has been decided;
:i) Decisions of rehabilitation;
:j) Decisions of pardon;
:k) Decisions of release on parole;
:l) Decisions from foreign jurisdictions regarding Belgian citizens;
:m) Sentences accompanying a main sentence, subsidiary sentences, 'security measures', and deferred sentences
There is no record of dismissed cases or verdicts of not guilty.<ref name="books.google.com.au"/>
To access their own criminal record, a person can seek it from their local police authority or send a written request to the Federal Public Service Justice. In terms of public access to criminal records, the following persons and judicial and administrative bodies may be able to gain access to records through the Federal Public Service Justice.
*Corporations: corporations, association, etc.
*Individuals when the document should be used abroad
*Foreigners for the period of their stay in Belgium
*Specific categories (e.g. diplomats)<ref name="diplomatie.belgium.be"/>

Two kinds of erasure exist in the Belgian system: The real erasure is the disappearance of the conviction, and applies only to police sentences (small fines and 8 days of imprisonment or less). For all other sentences, a system of "no mention" applies, whereby the conviction remains recorded in the central system but is no longer available for access by several categories of people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reflexions.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_36047/en/the-saga-of-the-criminal-record?portal=j_55&printView=true |title=Reflexions – The saga of the criminal record |website=Reflexions.ulg.ac.be |access-date=7 August 2016}}</ref>