Federal Act
on the National Languages and
Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Act, LangA)

The Con­fed­er­a­tion may grant fin­an­cial as­sist­ance to:

a.

news agen­cies of na­tion­al im­port­ance that re­port on the four lan­guage re­gions of the coun­try;

b.

non-profit-mak­ing or­gan­isa­tions and in­sti­tu­tions of na­tion­al im­port­ance that by their activ­it­ies pro­mote un­der­stand­ing in at least one lan­guage re­gion or carry out fun­da­ment­al work pro­mot­ing pluri­lin­gual­ism and pub­lish the res­ults;

c.

joint bod­ies that sup­port pro­jects that in­crease un­der­stand­ing between the lin­guist­ic com­munit­ies.