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The Benelux Union involves an intergovernmental co-operation.<ref>https://www.urm.lt/default/en/foreign-policy/lithuania-in-the-region-and-the-world/regional-cooperation/intergovernmental-cooperation-of-the-baltic-and-the-benelux-countries</ref>
The unification of the law of the three Benelux countries is mainly achieved by regulations of its Committee of Ministers, that only bind the three states, but are not directly applicable in their internal legal orders.{{clarify|date=November 2015}} They only become legally valid after having been incorporated into national law, with the exception of Belgium. The Belgian [[Court of cassation|court of cassation]] decided in 1971 that any self-executing treaties have priority over laws by the Belgian parliament.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|year=1971|title=Cass. 27 mei 1971, Franco-Suisse Le Ski|url=|journal=Pasicrisie|volume=I|pages=886|via=}}</ref>
The Treaty establishing the Benelux Union has provided the Committee of Ministers with the following legal instruments: decisions, conventions, recommendations and directives.
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