21.4.2022
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 167 A/9
ANNEX I TYPICAL DUTIES
Duties common to all institutions Linguistic assistants will be called upon to carry out, in a multilingual environment, a variety of duties that may include: 1.
Assisting linguists, translators, and/or lawyer-linguists in translation, revision and finalisation work, including for particularly important/sensitive translations: preparing documents in the language of the team, carrying out terminology research, pre- and post-processing texts to bring them in line with formal, technical and format quality standards. 2.
Performing their duties using translation tools, word processing software, CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools, office applications, and other available IT tools. 3.
Supporting linguists, translators and/or lawyer-linguists in using IT tools. 4.
Supporting hands-on and unit-internal training, integrating new colleagues, helping with the development and testing of IT tools. 5.
Ensuring document management: dealing with telephone and email requests, managing and processing translation requests, follow-up and filing of documents and correspondence, sending information and documentation to free-lance translators, liaising with internal and external clients. 6.
Managing linguistic information and documentation: conducting searches for legal and other reference documents, titles, text and/or templates in databases; uploading documents in databases, servers and websites; maintaining linguistic and documentary resources, feeding material into and updating translation memories; managing correspondence with national experts, liaising with service libraries and external partners; finding, compiling and disseminating information. 7.
Keeping thematic translation memories up-to-date in cooperation with translators or lawyer linguists: sentence management in EURAMIS (central translation memory), correcting raw alignments, etc.
Additional duties at the Council of the EU At the Council, the duties of linguistic assistants may in addition include the following: 1.
Revising texts in language 1 by comparing their content to original documents drafted in another language known by the assistant or assisting in such work as appropriate. 2.
Assisting the President of the Council Working Party on Legal/Linguistic experts on the consolidation of comments from EU Member States and acting as note taker during the meeting of the Working party. 3.
Providing content-related, organisational and technical assistance to lawyer-linguists by preparing and performing a pre-revision of the legislative acts in the language of the team following the model made in the language of negotiation by the lawyer-linguist in charge of the document.
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