General EU information
EU institutions
- Names of institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union
- European Commission
- European Parliament
- European Council/Council of the EU
- The European Committee of the Regions (CoR)
- The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
European legislation
- EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force
Contractor guides
Guidelines
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)
- Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making
- Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization
Style guides
- Interinstitutional Style Guide — for Latvian
- Common translation challenges
- Joint handbook for the presentation and drafting of acts subject to the ordinary legislative procedure - for Latvian (Word/TMX)
Language-specific information
Terminology and glossaries
Models and templates
- Explanatory memorandum model
- Interpretative note model (EN-LV)
- Legislative financial statement model
- LegisWrite models (Zip)
- Protection of EU financial interests
- References to Court of Justice cases
- Delegated acts
- UN/ECE standard phrases
- Amending acts model
Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)
- DGT translation memory
- Online dictionaries and language tools — University of Latvia
- Terminology database — Academy of Science Terminology Commission
- Language and translation reference site
- Decisions of Latvian Language Expert Commission-State Language Centre