Ordinance
on the National Languages and Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Ordinance, LangO)

(Art. 4 para. 2 LangA)

Whenev­er, in the cases de­scribed in Art­icle 4 para­graph 2 of the LangA, a unit of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion sets stra­tegic ob­ject­ives or pre­pares a ser­vice agree­ment or a sim­il­ar in­stru­ment with an or­gan­isa­tion or per­son op­er­at­ing throughout Switzer­land, it must veri­fy if:

a.

cri­ter­ia or ob­ject­ives in ac­cord­ance with the re­quire­ments of Sec­tion 2 of the LangA should be in­cluded in the stra­tegic ob­ject­ives or in­stru­ments;

b.

cer­tain pro­vi­sions in Sec­tion 2 of the LangA should be deemed ap­plic­able by way of or­din­ance.