LEGISLATIVE GAPS ALSO HINDER REGULATION OF USE OF ARMENIAN LANGUAGE IN EXTERNAL ADVERTISING, HEAD OF LANGUAGE INSPECTION SAYS
Noyan Tapan
April 18, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, NOYAN TAPAN. The reason that at every step you
can see signs, posters and advertisement boards either in a foreign
language (without Armenian translation) or in Armenian letters but
with the use of foreign words is that by the law, permission to
place external advertisement is given by local government bodies,
without a requirement to receive an agreement of the RA State Language
Inspection, the inspection head Lavrenty Mirzoyan said at the April
17 press conference.
According to him, the RA Law on Checks also hinders regulation of the
use of Armenian in external advertising. The law envisages a period of
three days for removal of a non-Armenian sign after the Inspection’s
recommendation, and the Inspection has no right to prepare a report and
send it to court for administrative proceedings. During this period,
the sign is removed and then placed again. A check has to be made
in the same facility in order to draw up a report, while the Law on
Checks allows to do so once a year.
The inspection head added that the management of economic entities
often prefers not to remove foreign signs worth 5 thousand dollars,
paying instead a fine of 50 thousand drams (about 161 dollars).
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
