Translation

Responsibilities

DGT’s key role is to enable the Commission to work in all official EU languages when: 

• proposing legislation
• issuing and implementing its official decisions
• informing the public about its work   

It also supports innovation in language technologies and promotes multilingualism. 

• Translation 
  DGT supports the Commission’s decision-making by translating EU legislation, policy documents, communications and other legal and nonlegal written texts from and into the 24 official EU languages, and others when needed. DGT helps the Commission to make information available to people in language they understand. This makes the EU more open, accountable and democratic.
• Clear writing 
  DGT edits documents written by Commission authors and advises Commission departments on how to write clear, correct and concise texts, thus making EU policies easier for people to understand.  
• Terminology  
  DGT manages, curates and re-uses the high-quality linguistic data it builds up in the course of its work, in the form of translation memories, translated documents and terminology records (e.g. IATE - Interactive Terminology for Europe). It also explores increasingly intelligent and efficient ways of using and sharing such data.
• Language technology 
  DGT develops secure multilingual services based on AI, such as eTranslation, eSummary and Accessible Text, and makes them available not just to the EU institutions but also, EU-wide, to public administrations, academia, small businesses, NGOs and other bodies.  
  It also invests in training large language models (LLM) to improve our services and products.
• Language skills 
  DGT runs a range of outreach projects, including the European Day of Languages and the Juvenes Translatores contest, targeting different audiences to promote linguistic diversity in the EU, language learning and language skills.
• Supporting the language professions 
  DGT provides resources for professional linguists (translators, interpreters, etc.) EU-wide and helps them refine their skills through initiatives like the European Master's in Translation, Translating Europe and the Knowledge Centre on Translation and Interpretation (KCTI).  

Transparency

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commission staff holding management functions publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives.
Meetings of the Directorate-General for Translation