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Legal Frame

The Biblioteca de Catalunya is an autonomous body that belongs to Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

It is the national library and it has competences on collecting, preserving and disseminating the bibliographic heritage, bibliographic standards and cataloguing.

The library manages the legal deposit of Catalonia and the assignment of the ISSN number to Catalan periodical publications.