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
• Council configurations
• European Parliament committees

European legislation

• EU legislation — databases and information about legislative procedures
• EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force
• PreLex
• Official documents from EU institutions

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Guide for contractors translating for the European Commission [391 KB]
• Translation checklist [207 KB]

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 French
• Joint practical guide for EU legislative drafting — for French

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• EU Budget glossary (EN-FR) [77 KB]

Models and templates

• Legal Service models [2 MB]

Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)

• French law (Institut français d'information juridique)
• Légifrance
• Moniteur belge — all acts since june 1997
• N-Lex — official legislative databases of 23 EU countries (experimental)
• Juriscope — non-French legislation translated into French
• see also Language resources and useful links for French