Environmental regulation stringency — emissions caps, standards, phase-out mandates, carbon pricing, renewable portfolio standards.
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Policy posture toward energy supply security — domestic production capacity, import diversification, strategic reserves, nuclear stance, fossil-fuel mix discipline.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
The Loi du 31 janvier 2003 sur la sortie progressive de l'énergie nucléaire prohibited new industrial nuclear capacity in Belgium and imposed a 40-year operating-life cap on each existing reactor, scheduling Doel 1-4 and Tihange 1-3 closures from 2015 to 2025. Adopted by the Verhofstadt purple coalition under Energy Minister Olivier Deleuze (Ecolo), the framework set the legal baseline for two decades of subsequent extension and reversal debates.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.