Terminologist and documentalist
Terminologists in the Projects and Terminological Coordination Unit are primarily responsible for managing multilingual legal terminology. Along with the unit’s documentalists, they also provide documentary support for the benefit of all of the institution’s staff, not only to the legal translation and interpretation services, which make extensive use of their services, but also to the drafters of case-law.
The terminologists and documentalists who comprise this unit ensure the terminological and documentary preprocessing of some of the documents to be translated and carry out research on request. They contribute to the definition and supervision of terminology projects, in close collaboration with lawyer-linguists. They produce and enhance terminological entries and monitor their quality with a view to incorporating them into the European Union’s terminology database, known as IATE, access to which is open to the public.
IATE prepares terminological entries (concerning multiple languages and legal systems) developed following research carried out to find solutions to comprehension, drafting and translation issues. A terminology database is a valuable aid for lawyer-linguists, interpreters or anyone who intends to draft or read a legal document.
They support the work of the lawyer-linguists by carrying out terminological and documentary research on request, which the institution uses primarily in the processing of requests for a preliminary ruling. They also offer a wide range of training courses on terminology, on language and terminology resources, and on document retrieval techniques, and coordinate requests from the members’ chambers in connection with the comparative linguistic examination of certain provisions of EU law.
The requirements in order to work as a terminologist or documentalist at the Court are specified in the competition and vacancy notices published on the EPSO site or on the Curia site.
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