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

(Art. 19 LangA)

¹ Fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for trans­la­tions may be gran­ted to or­gan­isa­tions and in­sti­tu­tions for their com­mu­nic­a­tion activ­ity in the vari­ous lan­guage re­gions, par­tic­u­larly for com­mu­nic­a­tion with the people tar­geted by their pub­lic be­ne­fit work.

² The or­gan­isa­tions and in­sti­tu­tions must meet the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments:

a.

they must be act­ive in at least three lan­guage re­gions;

b.

they must be non-profit;

c.

they must carry out activ­it­ies for pub­lic be­ne­fit;

d.

they must be polit­ic­ally and con­fes­sion­ally neut­ral;

e.

they must ful­fil a task re­lat­ing to policy on lan­guages and un­der­stand­ing, and their work must have a na­tion­al im­pact.

³ Or­gan­isa­tions and in­sti­tu­tions in re­ceipt of the fin­an­cial as­sist­ance es­tab­lished in Art­icle 14 are not en­titled to fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for trans­la­tions.