"Code of Ethics" project

Dear FIT Europe members,

 As you may already know, FIT Europe's Steeering Committee is working on a number of projects. One of them is the European Code of Professional Practice, setting out common rules of conduct for translators.

The first phase of the project was to collect and study the codes of Europe's many associations. Those documents are available on this site, and can be consulted by clicking on the link below.

 The next phase was to draw up a preliminary draft of a European Code of Practice. That document has now been made available to the European translators' and interpreters' associations which are members of FIT Europe, for consultation. They have until 6 August 2008 to submit comments and propose improvements to the code. Their reactions will then be incorporated into a final document which will be submitted for approval at the forthcoming General Meeting of FIT-Europe, on 6 December 2008 in Paris. You can follow the link below to the text as it stands at present.

 If you would like to contribute to improving this code, we invite you to refer to your national association, for it is the associations which have the right to submit suggestions regarding the content of the draft code.

For the FIT Europe Steering Committee,

Reiner Heard

Codes submitted by translators' and interpreters' associations which are members of FUT-Europe

Draft European code of professional practice