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    The document summarizes key aspects of the European Union and EU translation. It notes that the EU was founded on principles of unity and diversity. It describes the main treaties and organization of legislative and executive powers. The document also discusses that multilingualism is a core EU principle established in 1958 and that translation is institutionalized and part of the legislative process, with proposals drafted by many and published in all official EU languages. Finally, it characterizes EU translation as an activity that supports multilingualism through in-house and outsourced work and presents challenges to translation studies concepts.

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    EU Translation sui generis

    Oana Cogeanu-Haraga
    The European Union
     “united in diversity”

     Founding treaties:
    Maastricht Treaty
    Treaty of Rome
    + protocols and declarations
    Treaty of Lisbon, 2007

     Organisation:
    legislative power:
    European Parliament co-decision
    Council of the European Union
    executive power:
    European Commission monopoly on legislative initiative

    https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
    ... and translation
     Multilingualism principle
    Council Regulation No 1 of 1958

     Institutionalised: directorates and services, centres

     Part of the legislative process:


     drafting stage
    “rather than the final text being the responsibility of a single drafter, the
    Commission’s proposal is the work of many hands, and minds”
    (Robinson 2014:249)
     adoption and publication stage
    in all the official languages of the EU
    EU translation
    activity supporting multilingualism as a founding principle of the EU (EU institutions)

    “translation rendered by and for European Union institutions” (Biel 2017:32)


     in-house
     outsourced

     “multi-faceted, broad and fuzzy category” (ibid.)


     Legal translation
     Institutional translation → sui generis
     Specialised translation

     comes to challenge fundamental concepts of translation studies


     a process without a product
     parallel texts
     single instrument

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