In order to promote full implementation of EU social dialogue texts throughout Europe, a fund has been created for translating texts negotiated through the EU social dialogue into languages of EU member states as well as candidate countries.

What does this cover?

The fund is available for translating documents related to the European cross-industry social dialogue from English into the languages of the EU Member States and candidate countries. Texts include agreements, frameworks of action, reports and other publications.

Once finalised, the translations of the EU Social Dialogue texts will be published on the ETUC resource centre website as well as on the website of employers’ organisations.

Who can apply? 

National confederations affiliated to the European social partner organisations: ETUC, BUSINESSEUROPE-UEAPME and CEEP.

How to apply?

To benefit from the fund, national social partners must send a joint request to either BUSINESSEUROPE or the ETUC, indicating the document(s) they wish to translate.

Who translates the texts?

National social partners either jointly choose a national based translator to carry out the work or they ask the EU social partners to help them find an independent translator. In any case they must jointly check the translated text. The cost of the translation(s) will then be reimbursed by either BUSINESSEUROPE or ETUC according to the language.

For practical reasons, the financial aspects of this joint fund have been split as follows:

• ETUC: Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Maltese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
  
  
• BUSINESSEUROPE: Croatian, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian and  Slovenian.  
  
  

For further information about application and languages covered by the ETUC please contact: