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Council Working Group on the use of the six official languages of the Union

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The Council Working Group on the use of the six official languages of the Union (CWG-LANG) was established by Resolution 1238, adopted by the 2005 session of the Council.

Terms of Reference


The Terms of Reference of the CWG-LANG can be found in the Annex of Council Resolution 1372 (C15, last amended C24).

Meetings and documents


The seventeenth meeting will be held in January 2026 (TBC)
- Invitation letter CL-25/XX (available in due course)​
- Registration (to open by mid-October 2025)
- Draft agenda​ (not yet available)
- Official template (available in due course)​
- Documents/contributions (no documents yet)
- Information documents​ (INF)
- Webcast live / Webcast archives​ (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only)​

The sixteenth meeting was held on 12 February 2025 (a.m.)
- Invitation letter CL-2​4/67​
- Documents/contributions 
- Information documents​ (INF)
- Final list of participants (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only)

Feedback on AI interpretation during the CWG-LANG meeting​ 
(Wednesday, 12 February 2025)

Fifteenth meeting - 30 September 2024 (a.m.)
Note: This meeting was cancelled.​

The fourteenth meeting was held on 23 January 2024 (p.m.)
- Invitation letter CL-23/47​​
- Contributions/documents
Information documents​ (INF)
-Final list of participants (TIES protected)​​
-
Webcast archives​ (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only​)

The thirteenth meeting was held on 9 October 2023 (p.m.)
- Contributions/documents​
Webcast archives​ (TIES protected)​​​