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Announced by the President of the Estonian Republic
On December 19, 2003,
Decision Nr. 495

LAW ON AMENDMENTS TO THE LANGUAGE LAW

Passed on December 10, 2003

Art. 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) Art. 28.1 is abolished;
2) Art. 28.2 is added and has the following wording:
“Art. 28.2 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 (Art. 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.”

Art. 2 The present Law enters into force on January 01, 2004

The chair of the Riigikogu Ene Ergma