Developments in the Field of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

European Yearbook of Minority Issues

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 435-443

  Bultrini, Antonio ^a  

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EID: 84920869447     PISSN: 15707865     EISSN: 22116117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/221161103X00201     Document Type: Article

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1. Armenia, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
2. For further information see the website of the Charter: http://www.coe.int/minlang.
3. For an overview in French see Regina Jensdottir, 'Qu'est-ce que la Charte europeenne des langues regionales ou minoritaires?', 105 Herodote, Langues et territoires, (2002),169-77.
4. Linguistic and cultural rights can he considered as the third generation of human rights (civil and political rights being the first generation and social and economic rights being the second). In this sense see Florence Benoit-Rohmer, 'Les langues officieuses dela Francé, 45 Revue francaise dedroit constitutionnel (2001), 3-29, at 29.
5. For example, Germany decided to include Low German in the instrument of ratification, Low German being a very old form of German that many considered to be a dialect.
6. The Committee of Experts is composed of one member for each contracting state, who is elected by the Committee ofMinisters out of a list of three candidates proposed by the state concerned.
7. The question as to how the mechanism would cope with asituation where astate failed to submit the report has never arisen so far.
8. Such comments and statements must be submitted at the latest within a month after the on-the-spot visit has taken place.
9. The other reports finalized up to June 2003 concern the following countries: Croatia, Finland, Hungary Liechtenstein, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
10. Report of the Committee of Experts on the application ofthe Charter ECHRML(2002) 1, Strasbourg, 5 July 2002 MIN-LANG (2002) 4 final, at http://www.coe.int/minlang.
11. Namely to the Lander of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Westem Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.
12. See report of the Committee of Experts., finding D.,113; for concrete examples see e.g. paras.223,263-4 and 266.
13. Ibid., in particular paras. 92,147,222-3,263-6,300-3,332,362-5,405,407, 447-9 and 494. See also finding L.The CM also emphasized the need to have a more structured approach in the field and to make the users better aware of their rights (recommendations nos. 5 and 6).
14. Ibid., paras.93-4,152,233-4,269- 70,306-7,337,456-7 and 504-5.
15. See para. 29 of the report and point D of the findings of the Committee of Experts. Similar remarks have also been made with respect to the Finnish-speaking population living outside the administrative area of Norrbotten county, as only 5% of the speakers of the Sweden Finnish live inside this area (see also point C of the findings of the Committee of Experts).
16. The Committee of Experts has in the meantime adopted its second report on Norway, on 3 September 2003.
17. The text of the contribution byhe CoE, which includes a section devoted specifically to regional or minority languages, is available from the Secretariat of the Charter.