Editing Dutch Language Union (section)

===Internal organisation===
The NTU has offices in The Hague and Brussels, and it comprises four institutions:
*The Secretariat-General, responsible for preparing and implementing policy, headed by Kris Van de Poel since March 2020
*The Committee of Ministers, containing the ministers of education and culture from the Netherlands and [[Flanders]];
*The Interparliamentary Commission, made up of members of the Dutch and Flemish parliaments;
*The Council for Dutch Language and Literature.<ref name="Willemijns176"/>

===={{anchor|Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal}}''Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal''====
The binational (Belgium and the Netherlands) ''Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal'' ("Institute for the Dutch Language") in Leiden, formerly ''Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie'', works under the auspices of the Dutch Language Union, and is responsible for the ''[[Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal]]'' (Dictionary of the Dutch language).<ref>Willemyns 125.</ref> In addition, the institute publishes a number of dictionaries, including the ''Old Dutch Dictionary'', the ''Early Middle Dutch Dictionary'', and an etymological dictionary; and databases, including databases indexing various newspapers and magazines, and legal documents. The ''Spoken Dutch Corpus'' has contemporary Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands and Flanders, including audio recordings of Standard Dutch.<ref>Willemyns 177–78.</ref>

====Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature====
The [[Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature]] was founded in Belgium in 1886 to stimulate the culture and literature of Flanders. It is the official advisory board to the Flanders government, and publishes the ''Materiaal Willems'' database, based on the dialect surveys done by Pieter Willems, containing material from dialects in Flanders, the Netherlands, and [[French Flanders]].<ref>Willemyns 178-79.</ref>