The Vice-Ministry of Language Policy of the Basque Government has organized the V Plan for Standardization of the Use of the Basque Country. Presents the General Plan. The aim has been to make Basque a working language for employees of the Basque administration. Vice-Advisor Patxi Baztarrika was in charge of making known the knowledge data or, rather, the levels of linguistic competence in Basque accredited. From what the certifications say, there is a big leap into everyday use, and that has been acknowledged by Baztarrika.

In 1995, 23.5% of the workers of the Basque Government were able to develop their work in Basque. Currently, 51.1 per cent have a language certificate, while 9.8 per cent have a lower level than it is. Therefore, 59.9% of workers are able to work in Basque to some extent. In total, 4,052 workers. One thing is capacity and another is use. Baztarrika says: “This progress has been very modest in the use of Euskera as a working language, it has not been enough, nor has it been enough.” V Edition of the Day of Standardization of the Use of the Basque Country The General Plan has received criticism along the same lines: “An anomaly is that, as the Basque language is also the official language and more than half of the working and senior peoples are Euskaldunes, the Basque language, like Spanish, is not a much larger working language than it is today.” Hence, the main objective is to use Euskera as a language of service and work.

The other objective is to give effect to the right of citizens to choose the official language they want in their relations with the administration. One of the four specific objectives is to prioritize direct care and public attention services.