Article 2

Subject to paragraph (2), the modern foreign languages listed in Schedules 1 and 2 hereto are hereby specified as foundation subjects in relation to the third and fourth key stages.

A language listed in Schedule 2 is not a foundation subject unless the condition set out in paragraph (3) is satisfied.

The condition referred to in paragraph (2) is that the school at which the language is taught also offers all relevant pupils the opportunity of studying one or more of the languages set out in Schedule 1 for the purposes of the National Curriculum.