Text of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
All relevant texts in one publication: the updated 4th edition of the Language Charter’s collected texts is now available in English and French and contains, along with the Charter text and its explanatory report, the relevant decisions of the Committee of Ministers and the Rules of Procedure of the Committee of Experts.
It further provides the state of signatures and ratifications as well as reservations and declarations. A handy tool for all those looking for a user-friendly compilation of basic texts concerning the Language Charter: government experts, representatives of regional or minority language speakers and non-governmental organisations or other interested parties.
4th edition of the Language Charter’s collected texts
Authentic versions
English
Summary
Full text
Explanatory Report
Signatures and ratifications
French
Summary
Full text
Explanatory Report
Signatures and ratifications
ETS No. 148: Chart of signatures and ratifications, Full text of the Charter, Explanatory Report, Summary.
Source: Treaty Office of the Council of Europe
Working languages
German
Summary
Full text
Explanatory Report
Signatures and ratifications
Italian
Sintesi
Full text
Explanatory Report
Signatures and ratifications
Other languages
In some cases, the translated texts of the Charter and/or Explanatory Report listed below are used for official purposes by the State in question, but in other cases the translation is of a purely unofficial nature.
Albanian Charter and Explanatory Report
Arabic Charter and Explanatory Report
Aragonese Charter
Aranese Occitan Charter
Armenian Charter and Explanatory Report
Asturian Charter
Azerbaijani Charter and Explanatory Report
Basque Charter
Beas Charter and Explanatory Report
Belarusian Charter and Explanatory Report
Bosnian Charter and Explanatory Report
Bulgarian Charter and Explanatory Report
Catalan Charter and Explanatory Report
Croatian Charter and Explanatory Report
Czech Charter and Explanatory Report
Danish Charter and Explanatory Report
Dutch Charter and Explanatory Report
Estonian Charter and Explanatory Report
Finnish Charter and Explanatory Report
Frisian Charter
Friulian Charter
Gagauzian Charter
Georgian Charter and Explanatory Report
Galician Charter
Greek Charter and Explanatory Report
Hungarian Charter and Explanatory Report
Icelandic Charter
Irish Charter and Explanatory Report
Kazakh Charter
Latvian Charter and Explanatory Report
Lithuanian Charter and Explanatory Report
Macedonian Charter and Explanatory Report
Maltese Charter and Explanatory Report
Meänkieli Charter
Norwegian Charter and Explanatory Report
Polish Charter and Explanatory Report
Portuguese Charter and Explanatory Report
Romani Charter and Explanatory Report
Romanian Charter and Explanatory Report
Romansh Charter
Russian Charter and Explanatory Report
Ruthenian Charter and Explanatory Report
Sámi Charter
Scottish Gaelic Charter
Serbian Charter Latin Script and Cyrillic Script
Slovak Charter and Explanatory Report
Slovenian Charter and Explanatory Report
Spanish Charter and Explanatory Report
Swedish Charter and Explanatory Report
Turkish Charter and Explanatory Report
Ukrainian Charter and Explanatory Report
Welsh Charter and Explanatory Report
Yiddish Charter