August 2004

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MALTESE LANGUAGE ACT ADOPTED

August 2004 – After spending several months discussing the bill to promote the Maltese language, the Maltese Parliament finally passed the text on 14 July in its 3rd reading. The President of Malta, Edward Fenech Adami, assented to it six days later. Its wording is essentially the same as the bill submitted for discussion in November last year and has only been slightly modified. The object of the law is “to provide for the establishment of the National Council for the Maltese Language and other organs to promote the national language and to provide the necessary means to achieve this aim”. For more information, see Mercator-Legislation News: November 2003.