Guidelines for translating into Bulgarian

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
• Committee of the Regions — Commissions
• Economic and Social Committee — Sections and Other Bodies

European legislation

• Detailed information on Celex numbers ​
• EU legislation — databases and information about legislative procedures
• EUR-Lex — EU law currently in force
• Official documents from EU institutions

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Technical guidelines for translating XML files as Link
• Technical guidelines for translating EUSurvey XML files as Link

EU terminology

• ИАТЕ 2.0 –Интерактивната терминология за Европа на следващото ниво
• IATE — EU terminology database
• TARIC codes — online customs tariff database
• EU Budget online
• EUROVOC — multilingual thesaurus covering EU policy fields

Style guides

• Interinstitutional Style Guide — for Bulgarian
• Joint practical guide for persons involved in the drafting of EU legislation — for Bulgarian
• Bulgarian style guide — DG Translation in-house styleguide [updated 03.2021]

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• State aids glossary
• Phytosanitary glossary
• Chemicals names [Last update: 23/08/2021]
• Pesticides
• Glossary in the field of competition- Commission for protection of competition of the Republic of Bulgaria
• Climate change – key terms in 23 languages
• Financial crisis - key terms in 23 languages
• Migration - key terms in 23 languages 

Useful links (national legislation / authorities / expert bodies)

• DGT-Translation Memory
• Bulgarian decree for transliteration
• English-Bulgarian, German-Bulgarian, Italian-Bulgarian, Spanish-Bulgarian, French-Bulgarian, Greek-Bulgarian, Turkish-Bulgarian, Turkish-English, Turkish-German, Turkish-French online dictionary
• English-Bulgarian polytechnic dictionary
• Multitran dictionary
• National Statistical Institute
• Bulgarian Food Safety Agency
• Executive Agency on Medicines
• Commission on Protection of Competition
• Environmental Executive Agency
• Bulgarian Institute for Standardization

Webinar (video)

16 March 2021: Features of the translation of documents for the European e-Justice Portal

21 January 2021: Webinar 'Bulgarian Translation in the Field of Science and Technology: State of Play and Challenges' organized by DG Translation.