The Supreme Court has annulled several articles that prioritize the Basque language in local institutions
The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal lodged by the Basque Government against the ruling of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country and has annulled some of the articles of Decree 179/2019 on the guarantee of the linguistic rights of Euskaldunes.
The Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Supreme Court has confirmed the annulment of several articles of the Decree ofthe Basque Governmenton the institutional and administrative use ofofficial languagesin local entities 0 in 2019.
This annulment was established by a judgement of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV) in September 2023, following the partial admission of the challenge filed by VOX against /2019.
The decree was drawn up to guarantee the linguistic rights of citizens in their relations with local governments and the Basque Government appealed the TSJPV ruling to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court now considers only part of the remedy referred to in article 12 of the Decree, which states that "the local entities of the Basque Country and the other entities forming part of the local public sector shall plan and regulate, in accordance with their sociolingual situation, the use of the Basque Country as a language of service and as a working language of normal and general use, in accordance with the criteria set forth in the following articles".
However, it considers the annulment of other articles to be a firm decision, including that "each local entity or any other entity forming part of the local public sector of the Basque Country, taking into account the sociolinguistic circumstances of its territorial scope, shall determine the criteria for the use of languages in administrative proceedings initiated ex officio".
It has also annulled the article requiring municipalities to attend to any citizen in Basque and then to continue in the language of their choice, as well as to use the Basque language first in the messages of the automatic devices.
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