Since 2021, it has been possible to add Low German additional signs to the official place name signs in the federal state of MV. The Low German names are based on a resolution passed by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomeranian state parliament at the beginning of 2020. In March of the following year, the responsible Ministry of Infrastructure issued a decree authorising the districts and independent towns to add Low German supplementary signs for town entrance signs. The background to these activities is the intensified efforts of the northern German federal states to promote Low German as a regional language in the context of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages from 1992, which came into force in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999. Part III of the Charter, which was signed by the five federal states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen, also stipulates measures for the promotion and use of Low German in administrative authorities and public service organisations under Article 10.