The Education Order for modern foreign languages (national curriculum, England) states that a language is a modern foreign language for the purpose of section 84(4) of the Education Act 2002 if:

1. the language is an official language of the European Union, or
2. the language is a modern foreign language taught at a school that also offers relevant pupils the opportunity of studying one or more of the official languages of the European Union for the purposes of the national curriculum at the third key stage.

The official languages of the European Union are:

Czech	Danish
Dutch	Estonian
Finnish	French
German	Hungarian
Italian	Latvian
Lithuanian	Maltese
Modern Greek	Polish
Portugese	Slovak
Slovenian	Spanish
Swedish

For several EU languages there are no approved qualifications. These languages are Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Slovak and Slovenian.