Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: E U legislation is written in all of the EU's official languages.'Each version is authoritative, and no version is privileged as "the original," at least not as an official matter.2 The practice derives from the very first Regulation of the Council of the European Economic Community in 1958, which declared Dutch, French, German, and Italian as the official languages.As countries have entered the EU, the Regulation has been amended to expand the number of official languages to match the official languages of the Member States.4 Moreover, the accession treaties themselves contain provisions that show respect for the linguistic diversity of the EU. 5 For example, the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam says
Source: bepress Legal Repository
Author: Lawrence M. Solan
Institution: Brooklyn Law School
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2268102062