The European Commission's translation service (DG Translation ) outsources part of its translation work to private contractors. The links and guidelines listed here help them to produce high-quality translations on EU matters.

General EU information

EU institutions

• Names of institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union
• List of directorates-general and departments of the European Commission
• List of EU Commissioners [108 KB]
• Council configurations [54 KB]
• European Parliament committees
• Committee of the Regions — commissions
• Economic and Social Committee — committees [91 KB]

European legislation

• EU legislation — databases and information about legislative procedures
• EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force
• Instructions for searching in EUR-Lex [250 KB]
• PreLex
• Official documents from EU institutions

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Guide for contractors translating for the European Commission [391 KB]
• Translation checklist [85 KB]

EU terminology

• IATE — EU terminology database
• TARIC codes — online customs tariff database
• EU Budget online
• EUROVOC — multilingual thesaurus covering EU policy fields

Style guides

• Interinstitutional Style Guide — for Bulgarian
• Joint practical guide for EU legislative drafting — for Bulgarian
• Bulgarian style guide [395 KB] — DG Translation in-house styleguide
• European Commission's rules of procedure

 

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• EU financial terms:
  • Budget nomenclature [79 KB]
  • Financial terms [292 KB]
  • Financial regulation [702 KB]
• State aids glossary [169 KB]
• Asylum glossary (EN-DE-FR-BG) [155 KB]
• Anti-dumping glossary [171 KB]
• Phytosanitary glossary [325 KB]
• EESSI business glossary [138 KB]

Models and templates

• Formal expressions in EU documents [163 KB]
• Standard clauses for explanatory memorandum (EN-FR-BG) [135 KB]
• Multilingual list of LegisWrite expressions [350 KB]
• LegisWrite models [197 KB] (Word)
• Manual of precedents for acts established within the Council of the European Union [639 KB]
• State aids (EN-FR-BG) [445 KB]
• Translations in Bulgarian of procurement model contracts and other model documents [57 KB]

Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)

• Bulgarian grammar [182 KB] — clarifications from Bulgarian Academy of Science
• Bulgarian decree for transliteration [306 KB]
• see also Language resources and useful links for Bulgarian