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

(Art. 20 para. 1 and 2 LangA)

¹The an­nu­al per­son­nel man­age­ment re­port for the at­ten­tion of the par­lia­ment­ary su­per­vis­ory com­mit­tees must in­clude a sec­tion on the de­vel­op­ment of the rep­res­ent­a­tion of the lin­guist­ic com­munit­ies in the ad­min­is­trat­ive units re­ferred to in Art­icle 7 para­graph 1.

² The Fed­er­al Of­fice of Per­son­nel shall provide the Fed­er­al Del­eg­ate for Pluri­lin­gual­ism with de­tailed stat­ist­ics on the rep­res­ent­a­tion of the lin­guist­ic com­munit­ies among em­ploy­ees of the ad­min­is­trat­ive units re­ferred to in Art­icle 7 para­graph 1, par­tic­u­larly among those in man­age­ment po­s­i­tions. The stat­ist­ics shall be com­piled on the basis of the data and ana­lyses con­tained in the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion’s per­son­nel in­form­a­tion sys­tem (BV PLUS).

³ The de­part­ments and the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery shall sub­mit a re­port to the Fed­er­al Del­eg­ate for Pluri­lin­gual­ism every four years con­tain­ing quant­it­at­ive and qual­it­at­ive in­form­a­tion on the status of pluri­lin­gual­ism and the im­ple­ment­a­tion of Art­icles 6 to 8 in their ad­min­is­trat­ive units. They shall provide the Del­eg­ate with ad­di­tion­al in­form­a­tion on pluri­lin­gual­ism mat­ters in their de­part­ments and ad­min­is­trat­ive units when re­ques­ted.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Del­eg­ate for Pluri­lin­gual­ism shall pre­pare an eval­u­ation re­port for the at­ten­tion of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil every four years based on the re­ports of the de­part­ments and Fed­er­al Chan­cellery. The Del­eg­ate shall also make re­com­mend­a­tions in the eval­u­ation re­port on the thrust of pluri­lin­gual­ism policy in the fu­ture.

⁵ If a de­part­ment or the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery mani­festly fails to com­ply with the pro­vi­sions on the pro­mo­tion of pluri­lin­gual­ism, the Fed­er­al Del­eg­ate for Pluri­lin­gual­ism may is­sue re­com­mend­a­tions for the de­part­ment in ques­tion or the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery.