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Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community
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Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community
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REGULATION No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community (OJ P 017 6.10.1958, p. 385) |
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ACT concerning the Conditions of Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties |
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REGULATION No 1
determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community
Article 1
The official languages and the working languages of the institutions of the Union shall be Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
Article 2
Documents which a Member State or a person subject to the jurisdiction of a Member State sends to institutions of the Community may be drafted in any one of the official languages selected by the sender. The reply shall be drafted in the same language.
Article 3
Documents which an institution of the Community sends to a Member State or to a person subject to the jurisdiction of a Member State shall be drafted in the language of such State.
Article 4
Regulations and other documents of general application shall be drafted in the official languages.
Article 5
The Official Journal of the European Union shall be published in the official languages.
Article 6
The institutions of the Community may stipulate in their rules of procedure which of the languages are to be used in specific cases.
Article 7
The languages to be used in the proceedings of the Court of Justice shall be laid down in its rules of procedure.
Article 8
If a Member State has more than one official language, the language to be used shall, at the request of such State, be governed by the general rules of its law.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.