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The Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union is an agency of the European Union. Established in Luxembourg in 1994, its main mission is to provide translation and related language services to the other decentralised EU agencies. It may also assist those EU institutions and bodies which have their own translation services when there are workload peaks or for specific projects. In total, the Centre translates for almost 70 clients. At the end of 2020, it had a total of 220 staff members, including officials, temporary agents and contract staff. TELL ME MORE

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14/03/2023

Meeting ELA’s national translation coordinators

On 16 February, two representatives from the Centre met the European Labour Authority (ELA) and its national translation coordinators to review the functioning of the ELA Translation Facility. This Facility consists of a workflow that enables Member State authorities to create translation requests on the Centre’s Client Portal for texts complying with predefined eligibility criteria, and the ELA is able to validate these requests and control the budget consumption per Member State.

08/03/2023

2023 International Women’s Day going digital

DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality

Every year, on 8 March, countries around the world celebrate International Women’s Day to recognise women’s achievements and to defend their rights, regardless of their national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political background.

22/02/2023

Multilingualism on the agenda of the Heads of EU Agencies meeting on 9 February 2023

The Centre's Director, giving an online presentation via Teams

The Heads of EU Agencies met online on 9 February to review the Network’s achievements in 2022, discuss the priorities for 2023 and foster cooperation between the Agencies and with the EU institutions. The Centre’s Director, Ms Horváth, had the opportunity to present the Guidelines and template for EU Agencies’ multilingual policies, drafted last year by a working group of the Agencies’ Heads of Communication and Information Network (HCIN).

20/02/2023

2022 in figures

Illustration showing a stack of documents with charts

It is obvious that the Centre’s activities in 2022 have been influenced by the continuous post-pandemic, economic, social, energy and environmental crises that the world in general, and Europe in particular, have experienced in recent years and that amplified in 2022.

21/12/2022