Lviv Regional Council has once again approved a decision to declare invalid the law of Ukraine on the principles of the state language policy on the territory of the region.

According to Lviv Regional Council, the language law was passed with violation of the procedure and is "an anti-state law in essence."

Deputies of the regional council said that the language law contradicts Article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine and a number of Ukrainian laws.

As reported, on October 9 Lviv Regional Council declared the language law invalid on the territory of the region. Some 64 voted for this decision.

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the bill on the principles of the state language policy initiated by the Regions Party on July 3, 2012.

On August 8, 2012 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed the bill into law and instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to form a working group for development of proposals to improve language legislation in Ukraine.

The law took effect on August 10. According to it, a language may be provided with the status of a regional language if the percentage of people considering it their native language exceeds 10% of the total population of the region.