Legislation

Announced by the President of the Estonian Republic

On December 19, 2003

Decision Nr. 495

Passed on December 10, 2003

Article 1

The Language Law (RT I 1995, 23, 334; 1996, 37, 739; 40, 773; 1997, 69, 1110; 1998, 98/99, 1618; 1999, 1, 1; 16, 275; 2000, 58, 354; 65, 375; 93, 565; 2002, 9, 47; 53, 337; 63, 387; 90, 521) should be amended as follows:

1) Article 28.1 is abolished;

2) Article 28.2 is added and has the following wording:

Categories of Estonian language professional proficiency

(1) Categories of Estonian language professional proficiency are regarded to be equal to the obligatory level of Estonian Language proficiency (Article 5, section 4) according to the following rules:

1) Categories A, B and C are regarded to be equal to the Basic level;

2) Category D is regarded to be equal to the Intermediate level;

3) Categories E and F are regarded to be equal to the Advanced level.

(2) Categories of Estonian language professional proficiency are not regarded to be eligible for the procedure of naturalization.

Article 2

The present Law enters into force on January 1, 2004

The chair of the Riigikogu Ene Ergma

Source: Mercator, Bulletin 57, Estonian Republic, the Law on Amendments to the Language Law, December 2003, http://www.ciemen.org/mercator/index-gb.htm

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