All relevant texts in one publication: the updated 3rd 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.

  3rd 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