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Preparation of these reports started after the position of PGNM was created in 2012. The PGNM’s main duties are monitoring, analysing and evaluating compliance with the rights of persons belonging to national minorities. Thus, preparing these reports is an essential part of the PGNM’s mandate, and the reports can also provide background for any legislative changes.
Report on standing and rights of national minorities for the period 2017–2018 deals with the areas of cultural rights (e.g. how many libraries, museums, theatres and publications exist and how much time is allocated for broadcasting programmes in languages of national minorities on TV and radio), education (e.g. number of schools where national minorities’ languages are taught and where they are the primary languages), language rights and, lastly, national minorities’ participation in addressing issues that concern them. The aim of the report is to summarise the current developments in individual areas of respecting the rights of persons belonging to national minorities and to name the areas where progress has been made, as well as those where problems or shortcomings still exist. The frequency of drawing up this report was changed from annual to biannual. The report was prepared by the office of the PGNM in cooperation with state administration bodies, local self-government authorities and other relevant entities.
Report on the use of national minority languages for the period 2017–2018 specifically addresses the topic of the use of national minority languages, maps out the national legislative framework for the use of national minority languages in Slovakia, and sums up the process and results of the implementation of the international legal framework and the institutional framework. A substantial portion of the report presents information about progress of implementation of the obligations under Act No. 184/1999 Coll. relating to the use of national minority languages by local state administration authorities, local self-government authorities and legal entities established by local self-government authorities in the municipalities. The practice itself is transferable, although it is mostly based on data provided by other authorities and on monitoring of existing practices rather than on experiences of the persons concerned regarding access to their rights.
Both reports are printed in Slovak and English, distributed to all relevant stakeholders and publicised on the website of the PGNM:
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