The Spanish request to grant Catalan, Basque and Galician the status of official languages of the European Union is not, at this stage, on the agenda of a meeting of the General Affairs Council under the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council (see EUROPE 13293/26).
Last November, Spain submitted a legislative proposal revising Regulation 1/1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community. It lists, in an appendix, the reasons why its request is specific, including: - the three regional languages have constitutional recognition in Spain; - they have been used for over ten years within the EU institutions on the basis of administrative agreements with Spain; - a certified copy of the translations of the Treaties into these languages has been deposited in the archives of the Council of the EU (Article 55 of the EU Treaty); - Spain undertakes to bear all the costs arising from the use of the three languages within the EU institutions.
To see the proposal submitted by Spain, go to https://aeur.eu/f/ahi (Original version in French Mathieu Bion)