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university education in regional or minority languages is rejected, thus providing a
weaker protection; in this section, the Spanish Declaration clearly detaches itself from
the higher degree of obligations.
Sections (g), (h) and (i), which do not offer alternatives, are
accepted in their entirety and provide the teaching of the history and the culture of the
regional or minority languages (g), guarantee the training of professors (h) and also
create bodies to follow-up and control the obligations assumed by reason of Article 8 in
its entirety (i). Also Section 2 of Article 8, which foresees the authorisation, the
fostering or the establishment of the teaching of regional or minority languages outside
the territories where they are spoken if the number of speakers justifies it, is integrally
accepted by Spain.
As regards the administration of justice, the choice is clearly
on the highest side of the protection foreseen by the European Charter; thus, Spain
assumes the obligations taken into consideration in sections a (i), a (ii), a (iii), a (iv), b
(i), b (ii), b (iii), c (i), c(ii), c (iii) and d of Paragraph 1, Section a of Paragraph 2 and
Paragraph 3. Thus, as regards penal proceedings, all the possibilities taken into
consideration by the Charter are accepted; the latter offers them either as joint
obligations or as alternative obligations, linking the four obligations with the
conjunctions “and/or”. Spain decides to oblige itself by the four sections that refer,
respectively, to the development of penal proceedings in the regional or minority
languages at the request of one of the parts, to guarantee the right of the accused to
express him/herself in his/her own language, to refuse the rejection of written or oral
claims and evidence because of the their having been written in a regional or minority
language, and to write, at the request of the parties, the documents of the proceedings
in the regional or minority language; and if it is necessary to have recourse to
interpreters and translations in order to fulfil these four obligations, the costs derived
from it will never be charged to the interested parties.
As regards civil proceedings (b) and in administrative matters
(c), the Spanish Declaration also rejects the choice between the three obligations, and
decides to simultaneously accept them in their entirety. Thus, parties may require the
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