Official Language Center of the Republic of Latvia
Director:
Agris Timuška
Contacts:
Address: Merķeļa iela 13 – 400, Riga, LV-1050
Phone/fax: +371-7221258
E-mail: infoe simbolsvvc.gov.lv
About us
The State Language Center is a government authority supervised by the Ministry of Justice to implement, within the competence provided for in the law and other normative acts, the basic state budget program “Renewal and preservation of the functions of state language” – to participate in the development of state language strategies and support policies, and development of the legal, normative and linguistic base of Latvian language as the state language; render inquiries and consultation designed to promote the compliance with the Official Language Law, the Law on Enterprise Register, Commercial Law, the Election Law, etc. legal acts; develop the dialogue between the culture environment specialists, municipalities and society concerning the identification and solution of the issues of Latvian culture environment; regulate the use of Latvian language in the spheres of social life; control the compliance with the Law on State Language and other normative acts, and protect the interests of inhabitants in case of non-compliance with the language norms; clarify the basic principles of the Latvian language policy through learning of the language policy experience of the European states; cooperate with international funds and organizations to learn the language policy experience of other countries in the context of requirements of the European Union and the international obligations of Latvia.
