Declared inadmissible: 8 November 1989 (thirty-seventh session)* ** Subject matter: Refusal to recognize Breton text of license of an association operating in the Breton language Procedural issues: Standing of the author Non-exhaustion of local Remedies Inadmissibility ratione materiae Non-participation of Commit-tee member in decision Substantive issues: Interpretation of a reservation Equality before the law Freedom of expression Articles of the Covenant: 2, 16, 19, 26 and 27 Articles of the Optional Protocol: 2, 3 and 5 (2) (b) 1. The author of the communication (initial letter dated 12 January 1987 and a further letter dated 30 June 1987) is T. K., a French citizen of Breton ethnic origin, writing on his own behalf and in his capacity as president of the Unvaniezh Ar Galennerien Brezhoneg (UAGB, Union des Enseignants de Breton). He was born in 1937 in Brittany and is employed as a professor __________ * Pursuant to rule 85 of the Committee's rules of procedure, Ms. Christine Chanet did not participate in the examination of the communication nor in the adoption of this decision. ** The texts of the two individual opinions submitted by Mrs. Rosalyn Higgins and Mr. Bertil Wennergren are appended. The Human Rights Committee has declared three similar cases inadmissible, involving the use of the Breton language against the State party (communications No. 222/1987 and No. 228/1987, to which several members of the Committee appended individual opinions, as well as Communication No. 262/1987). of philosophy and of the Breton language. He alleges violations by France of articles 2, 16, 19, 26 and 27 of the Covenant. 2.1 The author states that the Tribunal Administratif de Rennes has refused to consider a case which he submitted on behalf of the UAGB in the Breton language on 7 November 1984. In this case, the author sought the recognition of the license for the association that he is heading. In reply to an inquiry written in French and Breton, the Tribunal answered that the case had not been registered because it was not written in French. A subsequent letter of complaint to the French Minister of Justice has allegedly remained unanswered. In support of his case, the author encloses copies of two decisions, one from the Tribunal Administratif de Rennes dated 21 November 1984, the other 41