Bilingual-Legislation in Kosovo_Engl

The purpose of this report is to provide insight into the current bilingual legislative drafting process at the central level, in order to highlight procedural and practical shortcomings and to provide recommendations to improve the bilingual drafting and translation process and strengthen the implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages. [...] Following the 2011 adoption of a revised set of Rules of Procedure that govern the law-making process10, the government also approved the Regulation on Government Legal Service11 and the Administrative Instruction on Standards for the Drafting of Normative Acts.12 The Regulation outlines the steps to be taken in the law- making process while the Administrative Instruction aims to unify the style o. [...] It is here where the Assembly has a lost opportunity—once the text is with the Assembly at the reading stage, the deputies who are members of the Committee should intervene where a draft law is not in compliance with the Law on the Use of Languages and the legal framework. [...] The role of the Office of the Language Commissioner in Overseeing Bilingualism in Kosovo In 2007, the Language Commission was established by the government following the promulgation of the Law on the Use of Languages.38 Its mandate was to monitor the implementation of the law, preserve, promote and protect official languages and their equal status in Kosovo as well as to provide and protect the l. [...] In certain cases, the legal revisers in the Legal Service of the Commission check for consistency of legal meaning between the languages prior to its adoption by the Commission and submission to the Parliament and the Council.42 Before an act is put before the plenary of the Parliament, lawyer-linguists of the Parliament and of the Council, as well as technical experts, work together to finalize t.