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Brush Up Your English |
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The EU has eleven official languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The principle that all the EU's official languages are equal is enshrined in law in the following documents:
The Treaty establishing the European Community states that every citizen of the Union may write to the European institutions in one of the official languages and have an answer in the same language;
The first ever Regulation adopted by what was then the European Economic Community, in 1958, stipulates that all documents of general application shall be drafted in all the official languages.
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The use of the official languages guarantees that every citizen can understand the laws which apply to him or her, be informed and take part in public debate, essential pre-requisite to a transparent and democratic EU. As the body which initiates and carries out the EU's policies, the Commission has a pivotal part to play here. It has set up the structures it needs to carry out these functions:
The Commission has a Translation Service (known by its French initials as the SDT), which translates more than one million pages a year. The SDT has a staff of some 1200 in-house translators, and also sends out more than 20% of its work to freelance translators.
Interpreting for the approximately 11,000 meetings held each year by the Commission, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions is provided by the Joint Interpreting and Conference Service (the JICS), which employs some 700 interpreters each day.
The cost of operating in the 11 official languages, taking all the Institutions together, is only €2 per EU citizen per year, compared to €5 for a cinema ticket in a big city…
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