The Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy reviewed the conclusion on the draft law on amendments to certain laws of Ukraine in connection with the update of the official translation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
10 November 2025, 16:15
On 10 November, the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy reviewed its previous conclusion of 23 October 2025 and decided to recommend that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopt as a basis and as a whole the draft Law of Ukraine «On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine in Connection with the Update of the Official Translation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages» (No. 14120), submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
The purpose of the draft law is to bring the legislation into line with the updated official translation of the Charter, carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in January 2024, as well as to clarify the list of languages to which its provisions apply.
The Committee supported the need to correct terminological errors in the current law on the ratification of the Charter and proposed an updated list of languages to which it applies. During the re-analysis of the document, the Committee reviewed the approach to the translation of key provisions of the Charter, focused on improving the terminology base, and updated the list of languages that will receive special status within the framework of the implementation of certain provisions. According to the updated data, in the proposed version of Article 2 of the Law of Ukraine «On the Ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages,» Ukraine plans to introduce protection mechanisms for the following languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Hebrew, Yiddish, Karaim, Crimean Tatar, Krymchak, German, Modern Greek, Polish, Romani, Rumai, Romanian, Slovak, Hungarian, Urum, and Czech.
The Committee also supported the removal of russian from the list as a language that does not require special protection under the Charter.