{"id":1573,"date":"2014-02-04T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/?page_id=1573"},"modified":"2014-11-01T18:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T17:15:04","slug":"minority-languages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/treaties_and_monitoring\/minority-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"European Charter for Minority Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1314 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen.jpg\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen-560x416.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen-260x193.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minderheitensprachen-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>Regional and Minority Languages are part of the European cultural heritage. In order to protect this heritage, the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/\" title=\"Council of Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; following a proposal of its <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/structure\/congress\/\" title=\"Congress of Local and Regional Authorities\">Congress of Local and Regional Authorities<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; drew up the <em>European Charter for Regional for Minority Languages (CETS No. 148)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Charter entered into force in 1998 and puts forward a number of recommendations regarding the protection and promotion of historically evolved Regional or Minority Languages in the following areas of public life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Judicial authorities<\/li>\n<li>Administrative authorities and public services<\/li>\n<li>Media<\/li>\n<li>Cultural activities and facilities<\/li>\n<li>Economic and social life<\/li>\n<li>Trans-frontier exchanges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a first step, the signatory states are required to determine the Minority Languages the Charter is going to be applied to. In a second step, they are asked to specify those at least 35 recommendations out of the 68 stipulated in the Charter they intend to apply to <em>each of the previously determined languages<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each signatory state has to hand in a report every three years, detailing the actions taken with regard to its obligations. Responsible for the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/treaties_and_monitoring\/\" title=\"Treaties and Monitoring\">monitoring<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of the situation in the member states is a <em>Committee of Experts<\/em>, consisting of one independent delegate per signatory state, and reporting to the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/structure\/committee-of-ministers\/\" title=\"Committee of Ministers\">Committee of Ministers<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 80%; text-align: left;\"><br \/>\n_<br \/>\nPhoto \u00a9 CoE<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages Regional and Minority Languages are part of the European cultural heritage. 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