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

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Guide for contractors translating for the European Commission [391 KB]
• Translation checklist [98 KB]

EU terminology

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

Style guides

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

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• Hungarian glossaries and databases — collection of bookmarks compiled by DG Translation

Models and templates

• LegisWrite models (EN-FR-HU) [2 MB] (Word)
• General templates and translation memories (EN-FR-HU) [194 KB] (Word, TMX)
• Specific templates and translation memories concerning:
  • agriculture and rural development (EN-HU) [25 KB] (Word)
  • agriculture and rural development, maritime affairs and fisheries, mobility and transport (EN-HU) [15 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • EU budget (EN-FR-HU) [71 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • competition (EN-FR-HU) [489 KB] (Word, Excel, TMX)
  • energy (NL-HU) [22 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • enterprise and industry (EN-HU) [154 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • European Personnel Selection Office (EN-FR-HU) [138 KB] (Word)
  • human resources (EN-HU) [47 KB] (Word)
  • maritime affairs and fisheries  (EN-HU) [53 KB]  (Word)
  • European Anti-Fraud Office (EN-HU) [48 KB] (Word)
  • EU external relations (EN-HU) [57 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • internal market (EN-HU) [58 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • justice (EN-HU) [38 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • health and consumers (EN-HU) [59 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • taxation and customs union (EN-HU) [33 KB] (Word, TMX)
  • trade (EN-HU) [196 KB] (Word, TMX)
• Normative translation memory (EN-HU) [8 MB] (TMX)
• Normative translation memory (FR-HU) [703 KB] (TMX)

Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)

• Hungarian law database
• Harmonisation of Hungarian law with EU legislation
• see also Language resources and useful links for Hungarian