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

(Art. 20 para. 1 and 2 LangA)

¹The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ap­point a del­eg­ate for pluri­lin­gual­ism (the Fed­er­al Del­eg­ate for Pluri­lin­gual­ism), who will be af­fil­i­ated to the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Fin­ance.

² The tasks of the Fed­er­al Del­eg­ate for Pluri­lin­gual­ism in­clude:

a.

sup­port­ing the Fed­er­al Coun­cil in set­ting the stra­tegic ob­ject­ives and mon­it­or­ing their im­ple­ment­a­tion;

b.

co­ordin­at­ing and eval­u­at­ing the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the stra­tegic ob­ject­ives by the de­part­ments and the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery;

c.

ad­vising and sup­port­ing the de­part­ments, the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery as well as their sub­or­din­ate ad­min­is­trat­ive units and their per­son­nel on pluri­lin­gual­ism mat­ters and rais­ing aware­ness of these mat­ters;

d.

col­lab­or­at­ing with can­ton­al ser­vices and oth­er pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tions and main­tain­ing con­tacts with ex­tern­al in­sti­tu­tions that pro­mote pluri­lin­gual­ism;

e.

keep­ing the gen­er­al pub­lic reg­u­larly in­formed on mat­ters con­cern­ing pluri­lin­gual­ism;

f.

rep­res­ent­ing the Con­fed­er­a­tion in na­tion­al bod­ies that pro­mote pluri­lin­gual­ism.