J. Communication Ho. 363/1989. B.L.M. v. France (decision of 6 April 1992, adopted afc the forty-fourth session) Submitted byt R.L.M. (name deleted) Alleged victim; The author State party: France Date of communication; 11 May 1989 (initial submission) The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Meeting on 6 April 1992, Adopts the following: Decision on admissibility 1. The author of the communication is R.L.M., a French citizen born in 1946 and a teacher by profession, currently residing at Nantes, France. He claims to be a victim of violations by France of articles 2, 19, 26 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Sights. Facts as submitted by the author 2*1 Since 1968, the author has been teaching in various schools in the district of the Academy of Nantes < kcademie de Kantes)i since 1977 he has been teaching Breton, history and geography in private schools, which provide education in accordance with a contract with the Ministry of Education. Since 1980, the teaching of Breton has been part of his official timetable. 2,2 In the author's opinion, the Rectorate of the Academy of Nantes (Eectorat de l'Academie de Nantes) has systematically discouraged and obstructed the teaching of Breton. This obstruction is characterized, inter alia, byj (a) The systematic denial to candidates to the Baccalaureat examinations of the possibility to sit exams in the centres usually provided for that purpose; (b) The refusal to inform the students or their parents about the possibilities, laid down in specific regulations, of studying the Breton language in secondary schools in Nantes and in the Departement de LoireAtlantigue; (c) The refusal to create a tenured post for the teaching of Breton, on the ground that the limited demand for teaching of Breton does not justify the establishment of such a post; <d) matter. The refusal to initiate an official and objective inquiry into the -367-