Guidelines for contractors translating into French

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

• EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Guide for contractors translating for the European Commission
• Translation checklist

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 persons involved in the drafting of EU legislation — for French

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• EU Budget glossary (EN-FR)

Models and templates

• Legal Service models

Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)

• N-Lex — official legislative databases of 23 EU countries
  • Légifrance - French law
  • Moniteur belge — Belgian law
  • Legilux — Luxembourgish Law
• French law - (Institut français d'information juridique)
• Juriscope — non-French legislation translated into French