TRANSLATION COORDINATION DEPARTMENT

European Integration Office,Government of the Republic of

Serbia

Belgrade, 2 December 2010

Preparation of Serbian version of the Acquis communautaire

• More than 200 000 pages of legal acts

• All expert fields, wide range of areas of human activity in general

Coordinated process of translation

• Translation • Expert revision• Legal revision• Language revision• Final verification

Challenges

• legal acts • concept-based EU terminology • non-unified field-specific

terminology• creation of new terms

Results

• new legislation• special languages and general

language• translation capacity building

Role

• education of translators, proofreaders and linguists

• creation of new profession -lawyer-linguist

• creation of new, market-oriented curriculum

Important translation tools

• Trados – (or other) translation software• Translation Manual• Multilingual termbase

o Evronim http://prevodjenje.seio.gov.rs/evronim/

• Bilingual corpus of EU legal actso Evroteka http://prevodjenje.seio.gov.rs/evroteka/in

dex.php?jezik=srpc

Thank you for your attention!

Milena PopovićTranslation Coordination Department

European Integration Office

mpopovic@seio.gov.rs