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8. Miscellaneous: What else can be found about languages and minorities?

In August 1999, the Finnish Government appointed a Language Act Committee in order to prepare a draft for a new Language Act for Finland. The need of this Act can be explained as follows:

The present Act from 1922 is old both in terms of the language used and in legislative technique.

The Language Act does not guarantee adequate ways of sufficient linguistic skills of civil servants.

The present Language Act does not cover fields for new means of transmitting information, for instance the use of the Internet.

The Constitutional Rights Reform in 1995 made it necessary to renew the Language Act according to the new stipulations.
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