Guidelines for contractors translating into Portuguese

General EU information

EU institutions

• Names of institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union
• European Commission
  • List of EU Commissioners
  • List of directorates-general and departments of the European Commission
• European Parliament
  • European Parliament committees
• European Council/Council of the EU 
  • Council configurations
• The European Committee of the Regions (CoR)
• The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
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European legislation

• EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Brief guidelines for translating into Portuguese
• 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 multilingual statistical metadata website (including combined nomenclature)

Style guides

• Portuguese style guide— DG Translation in-house style guide
  • Spelling agreement — new words with 2 spellings
• Interinstitutional Style Guide 
  • List of EU regions
  • List of countries, territories and currencies
• Joint practical guide for persons involved in the drafting of EU legislation

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• EU glossaries for Portuguese
• Glossary of primary law

Models and templates

• Legiswrite models
• Models and templates
• Translation memory (DG Translation)

Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)

• N-Lex — official legislative databases of 23 EU countries (experimental)

Language magazine

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