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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

Dirección General de Industria y Medio Ambiente de la Unión Europea

English translation:

Directorates-General for Enterprise and Industry and for Environment

Added to glossary by Jack Ward
Jan 3, 2013 11:35
11 yrs ago
Spanish term

Dirección General de Industria y Medio Ambiente de la Unión Europea

Spanish to English Other Environment & Ecology
Hello everyone,

I'm having problems finding an official translation of the following:

Dirección General de Industria y Medio Ambiente de la Unión Europea.

I have been unable to find an EU Directorate-General that refers to both 'Industry' and 'The Environment'.

All suggestions are appreciated.

Best regards,

Jack
Proposed translations (English)
5 Directorates-General for Enterprise and Industry and for Environment
1 DG for Industry and Trade and DG for the Environment
References
Directorate-General for the Environment (European Commission)

Discussion

Helena Chavarria Jan 3, 2013:
@Charles You're quite right. I'm not used to putting adjectives after nouns in English! To be honest, I don't understand why they can't be called General Directorates!
Charles Davis Jan 3, 2013:
Directorates-General I think Helena's suggestion is good, but (pardon me for being a pedant) the plural of Directorate-General is Directorates-General.

The term in your text is faulty; there is no such thing. "Industria" must presumably refer to Empresa e Industria, called Enterprise and Industry in English, since that's the only one with "Industria/Industry" in the name:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_es.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm

And Medio Ambiente is obviously Environment; it doesn't have a Spanish-language website:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/index_en.htm

So either DG Enterprise and Industry and DG Environment (adapting gallagy's answer) or in full: the Directorates-General of Enterprise and Industry and of the Environment.
Jack Ward (asker) Jan 3, 2013:
Thanks for the link, Helena!
Helena Chavarria Jan 3, 2013:
Why don't you use Directorate-Generals of Enterprise, Environment and Industry? http://ec.europa.eu/about/ds_en.htm

Proposed translations

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Selected

Directorates-General for Enterprise and Industry and for Environment

See list of directorates-general on the EEC website:http://ec.europa.eu/about/ds_en.htm

I rarely use a 5 level of certainty, but this is from the horse's mouth, and there's really only one way to write it out.



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Note added at 10 hrs (2013-01-03 21:53:43 GMT)
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Also, it should be 'of the European Commission' - not the European Union.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Yvonne Gallagher : this answer was already given, as was the link (already given three times)//it's the last line of my answer and I gave links earlier. I'm also familiar with subject:-)
12 hrs
It was given in the discussion, but not in toto, and not as an answer. This is a subject that I'm quite familiar with, including use of the misnomer "European Union."
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Many thanks, Muriel. Thanks also to everyone else who contributed. Best regards, Jack"
18 mins

DG for Industry and Trade and DG for the Environment

From what I can find, they are two separate DGs just linked together here. In the link below there are other examples of various linkings

http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&quer...

here it is clear that Industry and Trade is one Directorate

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2...



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Note added at 19 mins (2013-01-03 11:54:41 GMT)
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confidence level should be a 4 rather than a guess

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Note added at 23 mins (2013-01-03 11:58:47 GMT)
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for the list of directorates where it is simply "Trade" here though I have seen it as Enterprise and Industry and various other titles as well

http://ec.europa.eu/about/ds_en.htm

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Note added at 25 mins (2013-01-03 12:01:07 GMT)
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the rest of your document shoud let you know if you are dealing with Trade or Enterprise and Industry but I beive Environmentis a separate DG

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm


http://ec.europa.eu/trade/index_en.htm


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Note added at 4 hrs (2013-01-03 15:57:44 GMT)
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So, it seems to be agreed that the "Y" is linking the two separate Directorates here.

I agree with the discussion points made by Charles and think his adaptation would work. I note he is using "Enterprise and Industry" rather than "Trade" :

DG Enterprise and Industry and DG Environment

the Directorates-General of Enterprise and Industry and of the Environment.
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Reference comments

11 mins
Reference:

Directorate-General for the Environment (European Commission)

From Wikipedia:

" It was only in 1973 that an environmental unit was created within DG Industry; a fully-fledged Environment Directorate-General (DG) was then set up in 1981."

Could you be working with an old document?

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Note added at 11 mins (2013-01-03 11:47:07 GMT)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_the_Env...
Note from asker:
The document is from late last year, Cristina. Many thanks for your post!
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