Guidelines for translating into Finnish

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
• EU law
• N-lex (national law of EU countries)

Finnish legislation

• Edilex
• FINLEX

Contractor guides

Guidelines

• Translation checklist
• Quality requirements (Tender specifications TRAD23, point 5)

EU terminology

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

Style guides

• Interinstitutional Style Guide — for Finnish
• Publications in Finnish (Part Four)
• Joint practical guide for persons involved in the drafting of EU legislation — for Finnish
• The Joint Handbook for the presentation and drafting of acts subject to the ordinary legislative procedure
• Research Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus)

Language-specific information

Terminology and glossaries

• Finnish government termbank (Valter)
• Finnish Centre for Technical Terminology (TSK)

Models and templates

• How to write clearly

Useful links

• Translation technology resources (incl. DGT translation memory)
• EU Academy (Learning Portal)