EN
Spa parishes belong to such a category of parishes whose development does not depend upon the activity of their inhabitants but upon centralized solutions. Due to their specific character spa parishes have been subject to far-reaching development limitations so that they could realize their statutory curative aims. The present article analyzes the legal problems of spa parishes, illustrating their different character and their inability to cope with the current economic reality, caused partly by the 1996 Spa Act, which (unfortunately) still regulates spa operations.