Latvian State Language Center
| Abbreviation | VVC |
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| Formation | 1992 |
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Director
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Māris Baltiņš |
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Deputy director
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Ingrīda Bērziņa |
| Website | vvc |
Latvian State Language Centre (VVC; Latvian: Valsts valodas centrs) is a direct administration institution subordinated to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Latvia. The purpose of the State Language Centre is to implement the national policy on the use of the official language. The Centre supervises and controls the conformity with laws and regulations on the use of official language, provides the State administration institutions and the public with official translations of laws and regulations and other documents issued by the State or international organisations while concurrently ensuring use of consistent terminology. The State Language Centre protects rights and interests of the official language users, promotes the regularisation of the cultural environment of language and promotes comprehensive functioning of Latvian language.
On 5 May 1989 Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Law on Languages was adopted. This Law prescribes:
On 6 January 1998 the Latvian language was prescribed as the official language in the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia – 10 years after it was declared the official language.
Since 1993 State Language Centre supervises the conformity with the laws and regulations on the official language use, ensures the maintenance, protection and development of the Latvian language. State Language Centre was assigned additional functions in 2009 after its merger with Translation and Terminology Centre. State Language Centre has the following functions:
The work of the Centre is led by the director of the Centre. After the approval of the candidacy by the Cabinet the director of the Centre is appointed by the Minister for Justice. The director of the State Language Centre is Dr. habil. med. Māris Baltiņš, and the deputy director – Ingrīda Bērziņa. The State Language Centre consists of three departments.
Administrative department is responsible for the organization of the administrative matters (personnel, legal matters, record keeping, management of information systems) as well as prepares and executes necessary documentation.
Language Control Department consists of two branches – Riga Branch of the Language Control Department and Regional Branch of the Language Control Department. Language Control Department has the following functions:
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