Wallonia (Belgium): Flag laws and specifications

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Laws on the flag of the French Community

Law of the Walloon Assembly of 16 March/20 April 1913

The Walloon Assembly was the assembly of the Walloon Movement (Mouvement Wallon), not the assembly of a Walloon Region or Community, which did not exist at that time.
The proportions of the flag was then 1:1, according to Yves Moreau: La génèse du drapeau wallon (Enquêtes du musée de la vie wallonne, Tome XVI, 63ème-64ème années, N°185-188. 1987).

Law of 20 July 1975

This law prescribed the flag of the French Cultural Community. (Communauté culturelle française) The law mentioned also a Community day.

Law of the 3 July 1991

This law was about the emblems of the French Community, which had replaced the French Cultural Community. The law text includes official pictures (black and white) for the flag (2:3), arms and seal, and specifications concerning the position of the rooster in the flag:

"Le coq hardi est inscrit dans un cercle non apparent dont le centre coïncide avec celui du tablier, dont le diamètre est égal au guindant et dont la circonférence passe par les extrémités des pennes supérieures et inférieures de la queue et par l'extrémité de la patte levée. L'horizontalité du coq est déterminé par une droite non apparente joignant le sommet de sa crète à l'extrémité de la penne supérieure de la queue."

"The bold rooster is inscribed in an invisible circle, the center of which is the same as the center of the field, the diameter of which is equal to the hoist and the circumference of which goes through the tips of the upper and lower feathers of the tail and the tip of the raised foot. The horizontality of the rooster is determined by an invisible straight line from the top of the crest to the tip of the upper feather of the tail." Translation by Bill Thayer, 19 May 1996

There is also a standard for the high authorities of the Community. It is yellow with the red rooster, red and yellow fringed and has the proportions 26:30 (cm).

Mark Sensen, 10 May 1996

Law on the flag of the Walloon Region

384 (1997-1998) - N° 1
WALLOON PARLIAMENT
SESSION 1997-1998
10 JUNE 1998

PROPOSAL OF DECREE
Establishing the Walloon Regional Day and the emblems of the Walloon Region

proposed by Messrs. M. Bayenet, S. Kubla, A. Lié'nard et J. Daras.

PREAMBLE

The identity of a Region is conveyed by several elements, the first of them being the recognition of a flag and the establishment of a Regional Day. The Walloon rooster, proposed here as the emblem of