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Knowledge Centre on Interpretation

EU Terminology Sources

Many EU terminology resources are publicly available

EU Databases

IATE

IATE (Inter-Active Terminology for Europe) is the EU's inter-institutional terminology database. IATE has been used in the EU institutions and agencies since summer 2004 for the collection, dissemination and shared management of EU-specific terminology.

EuroVoc

EuroVoc is a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU. It contains terms in 23 EU languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish), as well as in three languages of countries which are candidate for EU accession: Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian.

Interinstitutional style guide

The interinstitutional style guide provides uniform stylistic rules and conventions which should be used by all the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union.

Some European Commission DG Glossaries

Agriculture and rural development

Budget

Communications Networks, Content and Technology

European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations

Eurostat Thematic Glossaries

Migration and Home Affairs

Regional Policy

Taxation and Customs Union:

Council of the European Union

PRADO - Public Register of Authentic travel and identity Documents Online

PRADO dictionary

Other EU Sources

Combined Nomenclature

European Environment Agency (EEA)

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

European Nature Information System (EUNIS) biodiversity database

ECHA-term: multilingual terminology in the chemicals field (European Chemicals Agency)

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