Setting up a Translation Centre for bodies of the European Union

The Council decision set up a Translation Centre for the new bodies of the European Union (specialised agencies with the exception of the European Monetary Institute and the Office for Veterinary and Plant Health Inspection and Control) in Luxembourg, in the form of an inter-agency structure. It was linked from both a budgetary and organisational point of view to the agencies and to the Commission, with a distinct legal personality, autonomous management and a separate budget, which would be financed in its entirety through financial contributions from the bodies in question. The Centre would have a management board whose members would hold office for three years. The Centre was the responsibility of a director appointed by the management board for a period of five years, which could be renewed. The Commission would provide the Centre with technical assistance for a fee: access for the Centre to support services (terminology, databases, documentation, machine translation, training, freelance databases, secondment of officials) and administration of the Centre's general services (payment of salaries, sickness fund, pensions, etc.). The decision entered into force on 14 December 1994. �