
Article 1 
Regulation No 1 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. Article 1 shall be replaced by the following:
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Article 1 
The official languages and the working languages of the institutions of the European Union shall be Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.';
2.. Article 4 shall be replaced by the following:
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Article 4 
Regulations and other documents of general application shall be drafted in the 21 official languages.';
3.. Article 5 shall be replaced by the following:
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Article 5 
The Official Journal of the European Union shall be published in the 21 official languages.'
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Regulation No 1 and for a renewable period of five years beginning on the day on which this Regulation applies, the institutions of the European Union shall not be bound by the obligation to draft all acts in Irish and to publish them in that language in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Article shall not apply to Regulations adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council.
Article 3 
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Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.