The Assembly is breaking the law by not allowing people to read a Welsh language report of its debates, according to Wales' language watchdog.The Welsh Language Board's report states (PDF): "the Board believes that the Commission has failed to comply with the Welsh Language Scheme by failing to provide a completely bilingual Record of proceedings of Assembly Plenary meetings." (pg 15)According to the report, the Assembly's ruling body attempted to stop the Board from investigating its law-breach: "The Assembly Commission has challenged the Board's statutory right to hold the investigation "(pg. 5)Welsh language campign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg launched an online peition this week and within two days over five hundred people had signed it.Catrin Dafydd from Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg said:"It's unbelievable that our legislature in Wales is breaking the law, especially against the interests of the Welsh language. In light of this highly critical report, they must start providing a fully bilingual Record of Proceedings. That was the setup for the first eleven years, so it's not asking a lot for them to return to that practice.""We're calling on people to sign our petition to put pressure on our politicians to reverse their decision. If they continue to ignore their legal obligations, we will need to consider how to challenge them in the courts." Ceri Phillips, rights spokesperson for Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg added:"It's obvious from reading the report that the Assembly Commission has tried every possible trick in an attempt to avoid its legal duty to publish a completely bilingual Cofnod. This is a body that's supposed to represent us, the people of Wales. It raises moral questions about the Assembly's commitment to the language.""The Assembly's trying every which way to get out of this, but the Board's report states finally and definitely that the Cofnod should be fully bilingual. It appears that the Assembly intends to pass a Bill or Language Act for its own bilingual services. We'll have many questions about this process, but it's now completely clear that it would be morally impossible for the Assembly to create a Bill of that type without making a fully bilingual Cofnod part of it."