Year: 2018

The decision of the European Ombudsman in case OI/6/2018/LM on the European Commission’s failure to report on time on Member States’ compliance with Directive 2010/64/EU on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings was published on the Ombudsman’s website yesterday. You can read the text here: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decision/en/107489.

The final vote concerning the ISO 20228 standard (Legal Interpreting) is now open and its deadline is 5 January 2019. We invite all EULITA members to ask their national ISO committees (mirror committees) to vote in favour of FDIS 20228 (Legal Interpreting) before that date.

On 15 November, EULITA submitted its observations to Ms O’Reilly, the European Ombudsman, relating to her Own Initiative Inquiry (OI/6/2018/LM) following a complaint introduced by a colleague against the Commission’s failure to submit a report on the Member States’ implementation of Directive 2010/64. The letter can be found here.

Registration for the EULITA conference entitled “The Impact of Interpreters on the Judiciary at National and International Level” to be held at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Plateau de Kirchberg, Luxembourg, on 28-29 March 2019 is now open and runs until 14 March 2019. The online registration form along with a preliminary...

EULITA is pleased to announce that SCIC’s Knowledge Centre of Interpretation (KCI) has been launched and is now available online for all to use at https://ec.europa.eu/scic-kci. The KCI is a “single, go-to space to manage and exchange knowledge, create synergies and disseminate best practices on conference interpretation and more”, designed to connect diverse communities with...

We all agree that Justice should be celebrated every day in our courtrooms. Let’s therefore consider this day as a memento for everybody that Justice can only prevail if all legal stakeholders – prosecutors, judges, lawyers, notaries, registrars, police officers as well as legal interpreters and translators – respect each other and mutually recognize each...

EULITA and ALTI are very happy to announce that the EULITA General Assembly will take place next year in Luxembourg on Friday, 29 March, at 3 pm. It will be preceded on Thursday afternoon by a roundtable where national and CJEU judges will discuss the impact of interpreters on the judiciary, and on Friday morning...

26th, the European Day of Languages 30th, International Day of Translation EULITA does not forget, however, that translators and interpreters work tirelessly around the world 365 days per year in order to allow mutual understanding, facilitate communication, contribute to avoid miscarriages of Justice.

The Commission awarded the grant to the project NetPraLat (NETworking to strengthen pre-trial procedural rights by PRActice-oriented cross-border LAwyers Training) whose beneficiaries are the Catalan Bar Association (CICAC), the Catalan Organization for the Defense of HR (IRIDIA), the Lithuanian HR Monitoring Institute (HRMI), the Polish National Bar Association (NBAP) and EULITA. The Estonian Bar Association,...

The EULITA expert Liese Katschinka successfully communicated the latest version, including ISO Secretariat adjustments, to WG 2 members at the annual meeting of ISO TC 37 SC 5 in Hangzhou, China. ISO members will now be asked to vote on the text so that it will be adopted as a final ISO standard on legal...