being the case. The information is spread over several sites such as www.info-risques.be, www.seveso.be, www.risquenucleaire.be, etc. If you visit the French-language pages of the Info-risques website and want to download the information brochure on industrial risks, you are redirected to the English-language pages of the Seveso website. If you wish to listen to the Seveso alert siren, the caption is displayed in Dutch. Should you wish to know where the Seveso companies are located in Ghent or Antwerp, remember to enter « Gent » or « Antwerpen » in Dutch in the search form, even though you might be on the French version of the site, otherwise an error message will be displayed. « Crainhem » spelled in French does not yield any results even though it is one of the communes with language facilities in the suburbs of Brussels! When you finally find the list of the 23 Seveso sites in the Ghent region and if you want to know what safety measures to take, here again you will be disappointed: you only learn that company X or Y produces this or that toxic substance. But there is not the slightest trace of specific protective measures to be taken in the event of an accident for each company! The conclusion is clear: the APFF considers that the resources implemented to inform minorities in the event of a disaster are clearly inadequate in Belgium. This observation, like our intervention, is supported by the Coalition of Francophone Associations in Flanders (CAFF) (1) who participated in Belgium’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by sending a written contribution to the UN (http://www.francophonie.be/caff/main/pdf/ctcaffenv1b.pdf). We thank you, (1) The Coalition of Francophone Associations in Flanders (CAFF) regroups six associations representing the 310,000 francophones in Flanders including the outskirts of Brussels and the entity of Fourons : « Action Fouronnaise », « Association culturelle de Dilbeek » (ACD), « Association de Promotion des Droits Humains et des Minorités » (ADHUM), « Association francophone de Leeuw-Saint-Pierre », « Association pour la Promotion de la Francophonie en Flandre » (APFF) and «Citoyens de Zaventem». For more information Please visit our site (http://www.francophonie.be/ndf). About the APFF The Association for the Promotion of French Culture in Flanders (APFF) has no political objective. It simply wants French, one of Belgium’s official languages, to have the right to be used in Flanders in the same way as any other language. The APFF promotes French culture in particular by publishing the magazine « Nouvelles de Flandre » on its website (http://www.francophonie.be/ndf). Here you can also find a calendar of activities in French and the addresses of French-speaking resources in Flanders, as well as articles