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

European legislation

• EU legislation — databases and information about legislative procedures
• EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force
• PreLex
• Official documents from EU institutions
• EEA Agreement [2 MB] — European Economic Area Agreement
• Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management

 

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Guide for contractors translating for the European Commission [391 KB]
• Translation checklist [96 KB]
• Handbook for translating into Czech [2 MB]
• Brief guidelines for translating into Czech [160 KB]
• Contractors' seminar presentations [2 MB] — Prague, 17 March 2011

EU terminology

• IATE — EU terminology database
• TARIC codes — online customs tariff database
• EU Budget Online
• Eurovoc — multilingual thesaurus covering EU policy fields
• RAMON — Eurostat's statistical metadata website (including combined nomenclature)

Style guides

• Interinstitutional Style Guide — for Czech
• Joint practical guide for EU legislative drafting — for Czech

 

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• Combined nomenclature [Updated 11.01.2012]
• Combined nomenclature (EN-CS) [388 KB] (TMX) [Updated 11.01.2012]
• Antidumping glossary (EN-CS) [30 KB]
• Antidumping basic regulation
• Czech orthography recommendation [158 KB]
• Translating online content [62 KB]

Models and templates

• Amendments [192 KB] — standard phrases
• Article concerning protection of financial interests of the Union [106 KB]
• Article delegating powers to the Commission [95 KB]
• Explanatory memorandum model [65 KB] (Word) [Updated 11.01.2012]
• Legislative financial statement model [134 KB] (Word)
• Legislative financial statement model [28 KB] (TMX)
• LegisWrite models [3 MB] (Word) [Updated 11.01.2012]
• Multilingual translation memory of EU law

Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)

• WTO Agreement [478 KB]
• WTO — annexes [11 MB]
• see also Language resources and useful links for Czech