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October 03, 2005 a derogation for 5 years renewable Ciarán, at Neither Indifferent Nor Sceptical, picks up on a recent post at the EU Law blog on the occasionally controversial subject of official EU language status for Irish. As Ciarán points out the reports at the time of the announcement neglected to mention the newly introduced conditions of that amended regulation[pdf file], as stated by the EU Law blog - "there is a derogation for 5 years renewable according to which the institutions are not bound to draft all acts and publish them in Irish. The Council can review that derogation every five years and decide unanimously to end it." The text of the amended regulation[pdf] states - Article 2 The amended regulation, and in particular the derogation, is described as being "for practical reasons and on a transitional basis" and comes into effect from 2007. The Council can review that derogation every five years and decide unanimously to end it Eh? So they don't have to publish anything in Irish until they decide unanimously to start publishing in Irish? This surely means we're back to square one? Posted by: Occasional Commentator at October 3, 2005 06:19 PM I think there may be certain exceptions to the derogation, OC, at least there seem to be - according to that pdf file.. but, don't forget.. it is an official EU language now. Posted by: peteb at October 3, 2005 06:26 PM I was just thinking that I was a bit quick to comment. I must read more of the links in future :-) Posted by: Occasional Commentator at October 3, 2005 07:06 PM heh. Think of it this way.. not quite back to square one.. just back to square one-and-a-half. Posted by: peteb at October 3, 2005 07:15 PM |
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