Council Regulation (EC) No 1738/2006 of 23 November 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 930/2004 on temporary derogation measures relating to the drafting in Maltese of the acts of the institutions of the European Union
Date: 2006-11-23
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Malta, accession to the European Union, derogation from EU law, information profession, official language, recruitment

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1738/2006

of 23 November 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 930/2004 on temporary derogation measures relating to the drafting
in Maltese of the acts of the institutions of the European Union

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 290 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in
particular Articles 28 and 41 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958
determining the languages
to be used by the European
Economic Community (1) and to Council Regulation No 1 of
15 April 1958 determining the languages to be used by the
European Atomic Energy Community (2), which two Regu-
lations are hereinafter referred to as ‘Regulation No 1’,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 930/2004 of 1
May 2004 on temporary derogation measures relating to the
drafting in Maltese of
the
the acts of
European Union (3), and in particular Articles 2 and 3 thereof,

the institutions of

Since the start of the transitional period, the situation as
regards translation from and into Maltese has improved
considerably, so that an extension of the temporary dero-
justified. By Decision of 24
gation measures is not
October 2006,
the Council accordingly decided that
there were no grounds for such an extension. The transi-
tional period will therefore come to an end on 30 April
2007.

(4)

However, Article 3 of the said Regulation stipulates that,
at the end of the transitional period, all acts which at that
time have not already been published in the Maltese
it
language are also to be published in that language;
would nevertheless appear to be very difficult
for all
those acts to be translated and published immediately
after 30 April 2007. Article 3 should therefore be
amended in order
to give the institutions a further
space of time to enable them to absorb the backlog of
all the acts that will not have been published in Maltese
by the end of the transitional period,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

By Regulation (EC) No 930/2004, the Council decided
that, by way of derogation from Regulation No 1 and for
a transitional period of three years beginning on 1 May
2004, the institutions of the Union would not be bound
by the obligation to draft all acts in Maltese and to
publish them in that language in the Official Journal of
the European Union.

On that occasion, the Council agreed, in Article 2 of the
said Regulation, that not later than 30 months after its
adoption, the Council would review the operation of that
Regulation and determine whether to extend it for a
further period of one year.

Article 1

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 930/2004 shall be replaced by
the following:

‘Article 3

All acts which have not been published in Maltese by 30
April 2007 will also be published in that language by 31
December 2008 at the latest.’

(1) OJ 17, 6.10.1958, p. 385/58. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 920/2005 (OJ L 156, 18.6.2005, p. 3).

(2) OJ 17, 6.10.1958, p. 401/58. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 920/2005.
(3) OJ L 169, 1.5.2004, p. 1.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 November 2006.

For the Council
The President

M. PEKKARINEN