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

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 5 October 2007 (Status as 1 February 2021)


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Art. 20 Plurilingualism in public service

1 The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall en­cour­age its em­ploy­ees to fur­ther their know­ledge of the na­tion­al lan­guages.

2 The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall en­sure that the lin­guist­ic com­munit­ies are fairly rep­res­en­ted in the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies and ex­tra-par­lia­ment­ary com­mit­tees, and shall en­cour­age pluri­lin­gual­ism in the armed forces.

3 The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall make their ter­min­o­logy data­bases avail­able to each oth­er free of charge.

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