The Language Ombudsman, Taras Kremin, reported that he had received a record number of complaints over the past 10 days. From July 16, new norms of the language law came into force.
He wrote about it on his Facebook.
During July 16-25, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language received 502 complaints.
"It is expected that the vast majority of these reports, namely 79%, concern violations of Part 6 of Art. 27 of the Law, which entered into force on July 16, 2022 and which regulates the use of the state language by online representative offices," Kremin explained.
According to him, every second complaint relates to the law, which stipulates that all Ukrainian Internet sites must be loaded by default in the Ukrainian language.
- In Ukraine, from July 16, all Internet resources must have a basic start page in Ukrainian, which will open by default for Ukrainian users. The norm of the law "On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language", adopted by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) on April 25, 2019, comes into force. The version of the sites in the national language must have no less information in terms of volume and content than the foreign language versions.