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European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association

Acronym: EULITA

General Information

Identification Code: 14566177047-72
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Entity Form: aisbl
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 10/29/2011
Last Update: 8/17/2023
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: EULITA is committed to promoting the quality of justice, ensuring access to justice across languages and cultures and thus, ultimately, guaranteeing the fundamental principles of human rights as enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. EULITA aims to bring together in its membership as full members the professional associations of legal translators and spoken or sign language legal interpreters in the EU member states as well as the general associations that include legal translators and spoken or sign language legal interpreters among their membership. As associate members EULITA welcomes all interested organisations, institutions and individuals that are committed to the improvement of quality in legal interpreting and translation. EULITA aims to support the interests and concerns of the national associations of legal interpreters and translators and to represent the interests and concerns of these associations vis-à-vis European and (...)
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Borders and security
  • Communication
  • Digital economy and society
  • Education and training
  • Foreign affairs and security policy
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Migration and asylum
Levels of Interest:
  • global
  • european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: EU legislation on procedural safeguards, i.e. Directive 2010/64/EU on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings and its transposition, authentication of important documents, language rights in asylum and migration proceedings, fundamental rights, and other Directives referring to procedural rights.
Communication Activities: TRAFUT - Training for the future JUST/2010/AG/1549 QUALETRA - Quality in Legal Translation JUST/2011/PEN/2975 LIT Search - pilot project for a European data base of legal interpreters and translators JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556 JUSTISIGNS - 538899-LLP-1-2013-1-IE-LEONARDO-LMP ISO standard on legal interpreting (DIS 20228) NETPRALAT – NETworking to strengthen pre-trial procedural rights by PRActice oriented cross-border LAwyers Training (806988-JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2017) CAPISCE – Child victims of trafficking: Access to Protection and Information based on their specific needs during Criminal Investigation and procEedings (847371-JUST-JACC-AG-2018)
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: Expert Group on European Judicial Training#E02241#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2241 #MEMBER #B#Professionals
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: 23, Boulevard Charlemagne
Post Code: B-1040
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office

Address: 23, Boulevard Charlemagne
Post Code: B-1040
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 2
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 3
Members F T E: 1.25
Info Members: The Executive Committee of EULITA consists of 7 persons who are all engaged, in an honorary capacity, in pursuing the goals set in EULITA's mission statement. They are supported, when necessary, by an assistant hired ad hoc. Any European issues concerning EULITA and/or its members are discussed and decided by the Executive Committee, i.e. if EULITA is informed of any EU plans on an issue relating to legal interpreting and translation and wishes to submit a statement, the Executive Committee will prepare and adopt that statement. One example in this connection is the EU Directive on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings, or the planned modernisation of the EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications. The same procedure is applied when EULITA decides to apply for or join an EU project.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: The full members of EULITA are national professional associations in EU member states. Associate members are universities, organisations or professional associations outside the EU, as well as individual persons in countries where there is no professional association or if they live outside the EU. For details on membership see the EULITA website: http://www.eulita.eu/wp/members-admitted-executive-committee-eulita/
Organisation Members: EULITA is a member of the EU Justice Forum and on several groupings of EU DG Translation. EULITA has also given several presentations to the e-justice portal committee. EULITA maintains contacts with FIT (International Federation of Translators), in particular FIT Europe, AIIC (International Conference Interpreters Association), CCBE (Council of Bars and Law Societies in Europe), FTI (Fair Trials International), ECBA (European Criminal Bar Association), CIUTI (Conférence Internationale Permanente d’Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes), ERA (Europäische Rechtsakademie), efsli (European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters) etc.