Guidelines for translating into French

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)

European legislation

• EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Translation checklist

EU terminology

• IATE — EU terminology database
• TARIC codes — online customs tariff database
• EU Budget online
• EU Vocabularies (Eurovoc) — multilingual thesauri covering EU policy fields
• Eurostat classifications and code lists
  • Combined Nomenclature

Style guides

• Interinstitutional Style Guide — for French
• Joint Handbook for the Presentation and Drafting of Acts Subject to the Ordinary Legislative Procedure — in 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