The Union Nationale des Experts Traducteurs Interprètes près les Cours d'Appel is a member organization of the
International Federation of Translators
The Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs ( English: International Federation of Translators) is an international federation of associations of translators, interpreters and terminologists working in areas as diverse as literary, scientific ...
.
Experts-traducteurs are professional
translator
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...
s chosen by a jury on application to the Cour d'Appel (
Appellate Court
An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear a case upon appeal from a trial court or other lower tribunal. Appel ...
) of their home region in France. They have to show the jury, on request, that they have been working for a minimum of three years and that the result of their work corresponds exactly to the original text. They are then listed on a document tended by the regional Cour d'Appel as a regional expert translator/interpreter. They are regularly checked by police officers on their personal acquaintances and life style to ensure loyalty, lawfulness and impartiality. Translators listed at the Cour d'Appel can, after another three years, file a new application at the jury of the
Cour de Cassation in Paris to be listed as a national expert translator.
External links
UNETICA website
Translation associations
Language interpretation
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