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f) The creation, performance and production of music sung in Catalan.
g) The production, publishing and distribution of written and sound material in Catalan designed for the blind, and
a basic cultural offer, in Catalan, for this sector.
h) All other public cultural activities in Catalan.
2. All measures taken to ensure the use of Catalan in cultural industries and in others shall be applied following
objective criteria, without discrimination and within the budgetary provisions.
3. In order to ensure a significant presence of the Catalan language in available films, the government of the
Generalitat can establish by a regulation linguistic quotas for the screening and distribution of film products
distributed and shown either dubbed or subtitled in a language other than the original one. The quotas set for film
products, whether dubbed or subtitled in Catalan, may not exceed fifty per cent of the annual total of films
distributed or shown, and shall be based on objective criteria. The relevant regulation shall be issued within the
context of the State Act No. 17 of 8th June 1994, concerning safeguarding and promoting the cinema, and according
to the treatment set forth therein.

Article 29

Language and computer industries

The government of the Generalitat shall aid, encourage and promote with adequate measures:
a) Research, production and marketing of all kind of products in Catalan related to the language industries, such as
systems of voice recognition, automatic translation and so on and others that technological advancement may
make possible.
b) Production, distribution and marketing of computer software, computer games, digital and multimedia products
in the Catalan language, and the translation of such products into Catalan, when appropriate.
c) The presence of products and information in Catalan in telematic information networks.
Chapter V. Socio-economic activities

Article 30

Public Companies

1. Public companies of the Generalitat and local authorities, and also licensed companies thereof that manage or
operate the licensed service, shall normally use Catalan in their internal procedures and documents, and on their
signs, instruction manuals, labelling and wrapping of products or services they produce or provide.
2. The companies referred to in para 1 shall normally use Catalan in their notifications and communication,
including invoices and other business documents addressed to individuals resident in the Catalan-speaking
territories, without detriment to the citizens' right to receive them in Castilian - or when appropriate, in Catalan, on
request.

Article 31

Public services companies
1. Companies and public or private entities which provide public services, such as those of transport, supplies,
communication and others, shall use, at least, Catalan in their signs and loudspeaker announcements.
2. Written communiqués and notices addressed to individuals resident in Catalonia, including invoices and other
business documents, made by companies and entities mentioned in para 1, shall at least be in Catalan, without
detriment to the citizen's right to receive them in Castilian on request.

3. The provision in para 2 regarding invoices and other business documents shall be interpreted without detriment
to the responsibility of the State to organise the aforementioned services when they directly render them or by
means of their own companies and entities.
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