European Parliament’s DG TRAD shares future plans after selecting consortium of Cedat85, RWS, BertinIT to provide tool that transcribes, translates multilingual parliamentary debates in real time.
The public sector was a significant source of contracts, conflicts, and developments for the language services industry in 2018. Here’s what you need to know.
While several language service providers were named to lots for multiple languages, almost 26,000 pages of historically hard-to-hire-for Irish translation remain unassigned.
In November 2018, three EU tenders were issued relating to translation. Two tenders call for 225 contractors for translation into multiple languages and the third tender, worth EUR 225,000, requires translation support for an EU-funded contract in Azerbaijan.
The interpreter strikes planned in the wake of changes to working conditions at the European Parliament (EP) are being curtailed and interpreters called back to duty in a move that MEPs are deeming “unacceptable”.
The pandemic forced the European Parliament to quickly adopt remote interpreting and reconfigure on-site interpreting setups, with plans to establish regional interpreting hubs.
European Commission to honor long-term interpreter contracts until December 2020. Parliament continues terminating contracts; sets up paid online learning scheme to soften blow.
EU releases complete list of players in contract to automatically transcribe and translate multilingual parliamentary debates in real time; two consortia and Microsoft Belgium awarded for phase one.
LSPs and translators hopeful of a demand boost from EU Medical Devices Regulation (EU MDR) must wait a little longer as coronavirus delays application.
Ireland and the EU hope their support for Irish education and professional training will pay off with enough Irish translators to allow the EU’s Irish derogation status to expire in 2022.
DGT awards translation contracts to 50+ LSPs across 18 target languages, worth USD 70m over five years; incumbent translation productivity provider SDL bags repeat contract.
Lawyer-linguists at the EU work on matters that have major policy and political implications. Here’s what it takes to be part of the elite few.
The Directorate-General for Translation has awarded Plunet a two-year EUR 0.97m TMS contract. DG TRAD to use Plunet Business Manager for managing its translation outsourcing.
European Parliament publishes new call for tenders for translation into 19 languages, amounting to about 609,000 pages or 100–150 million words per year across four institutions.
A group of MEPs cut off power to a Parliamentary meeting in Strasbourg on Tuesday July 3, 2018 in support of interpreters’ demands in relation to working conditions at the European Parliament.
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The European Parliament adopts Commission's proposal to remove the requirement to provide certified translations of public documents when moving from one EU country to another. The Commission estimates the measure will save EUR 75–100m in annual translation spend.
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