"RELATING TO CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE LAWS ON THE USE OF LANGUAGES IN EDUCATION IN BELGIUM" v. BELGIUM (MERITS) JUDGMENT 53 D. As to the fourth question 20. The fourth question concerns the issue of whether or not in the case of the Applicants, there is a violation of Article 2 of the Protocol (P1-2) and Articles 8 and 14 (art. 8, art. 14) of the Convention, or of any of those Articles, "with regard to the conditions on which children whose parents reside outside the Greater Brussels district may be enrolled in the schools of that district (Section 17 of the Act of 30th July 1963)". 1. The Facts 21. The second, third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of Section 17 of the Act of 30th July 1963 provide that: "In all cases in which the child’s language of instruction is determined by his maternal or usual language, the head of the school may register the child for a particular system only on production of one of the following: (a) a certificate issued by the head of the school which the pupil has just left, certifying that his previous schooling has been through that language; (b) a language declaration by the head of the child’s family, and approved by the language inspectorate in all cases where the inspectorate has no doubts as to the correctness of such declaration; (c) a decision by the Commission or Board referred to in Section 18. Where a child is registered at a nursery school for the first time, the head of the school may, however, admit him on production of a language declaration. The latter must within one month be forwarded to the language inspectorate for verification. In the case of pupils who enrol in a school in the Greater Brussels district and whose parents reside outside that district, the language of instruction shall, in the absence of any declaration to the contrary made by the head of the family and approved by the language inspectorate, be the language of the region in which the parents are resident. The King shall lay down standard forms for the certificate and declaration which shall comprise any information likely to facilitate the verification of their correctness." A Royal Decree was issued on 30 November 1966 which implemented this last paragraph; two other Royal Decrees of the same date stipulated the status and rules governing the functioning of the language inspectorate as provided for by Section 18 of the Act of 30th July 1963. 2. Arguments presented by the Applicants before or through the Commission 22. According to the Applicants, these provisions are incompatible with Article 2 of the Protocol (P1-2) and Articles 8 and 14 (art. 8, art. 14) of the