Council Regulation (EC) No 920/2005 of 13 June 2005 amending Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the language to be used by the European Economic Community and Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the language to be used by the European Atomic Energy Community and introducing temporary derogation measures from those Regulations
Modified by
  • Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2015/2264of 3 December 2015extending and phasing out the temporary derogation measures from Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community and Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Atomic Energy Community introduced by Regulation (EC) No 920/2005, 32015R2264, December 8, 2015
Council Regulation (EC) No 920/2005of 13 June 2005amending Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the language to be used by the European Economic Community and Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the language to be used by the European Atomic Energy Community and introducing temporary derogation measures from those Regulations
Article 1Regulation No 1 is hereby amended as follows:1.Article 1 shall be replaced by the following:
"Article 1The official languages and the working languages of the institutions of the European Union shall be Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.";
2.Article 4 shall be replaced by the following:
"Article 4Regulations and other documents of general application shall be drafted in the 21 official languages.";
3.Article 5 shall be replaced by the following:
"Article 5The Official Journal of the European Union shall be published in the 21 official languages."
Article 2By way of derogation from Regulation No 1 and for a renewable period of five years beginning on the day on which this Regulation applies, the institutions of the European Union shall not be bound by the obligation to draft all acts in Irish and to publish them in that language in the Official Journal of the European Union.This Article shall not apply to Regulations adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council.
Article 3Not later than four years after the date of application of this Regulation and at five-yearly intervals thereafter, the Council shall review the operation of Article 2 and determine unanimously whether to put an end to the derogation referred to in that Article.
Article 4This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 1 January 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
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