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SPAIN'S DECLARATION IN RELATION TO ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH 2, AND ARTICLE 3, PARAGRAPH 1 OF
THE EUROPEAN CHARTER OF REGIONAL OR MINORITY LANGUAGES
(STRASBOURG, NOVEMBER 5TH, 1992).

Spain declares that, according to the effects envisaged in the above mentioned articles, one understands as regional or minority languages those languages recognized as official ones in the Statutes of Autonomy of the respective Autonomous Communities of the Basque Country, Catalonia, The Balearic Islands, Galicia, Valencia and Navarre.

Likewise, Spain declares, for the same effects, that one also understands as regional or minority languages those languages protected and supported by the statutes of Autonomy, in the territories where they are traditionally spoken.

The following disposition from the charter's Part III will be applied to THOSE LANGUAGES REFERRED TO IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH.

From the article 8:
Paragraph 1, a(i), b(i), c(i), d(i), e(iii), f(i), g, h, i.
- Paragraph 2.

From the article 9:
- Paragraph 1, sub-paragraph a(i), a(ii), a(iii), a(iv), b(i), b(ii), b(iii), c(i), c(ii), c(iii), d.
- Paragraph 2, apartado a.
- Paragraph 3.

From the article 10:
- Paragraph 1, sub-paragraph a(i), b, c.
- Paragraph 2, sub-paragraph a, b, c, d, e, f, g.
- Paragraph 3, sub-paragraph a, b.
- Paragraph 4, sub-paragraph a, b, c.
- Paragraph 5.

From the article 11:
- Paragraph 1, sub-paragraph a(i), b(i), c(i), d, e(i), f(ii), g.
- Paragraph 2.
- Paragraph 3.

From the article 12:
- Paragraph 1, sub-paragraph a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h.
- Paragraph 2.
- Paragraph 3.

From the article 13:
- Paragraph 1, sub-paragraph a, b, c, d.
- Paragraph 2, sub-paragraph a, b, c, d, e.

From the article 14:
- sub-paragraph a.
- sub-paragraph b.

The dispositions from the Charter's Part III which may reasonably be applied to in accordance with the objectives and principles established in article 7 , will be applied to THOSE LANGUAGES REFERRED TO IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH.