Name: Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-07-15T07:00:00+00:00
Duration: 13425 s

06:27 - 08:11

Speaker 1

So, dear colleagues. May we start? Good morning to everybody. It's not so easy to get to the third floor. I don't know if this is, um, compatible with the fire guidelines, because to get to the third floor is a very interesting thing.

So, first let's start with the adoption of the agenda. If there are no objections, the agenda deemed adopted. Then under chair's announcement, the coordinators' decisions of the 23rd of June can be found in the meeting's file, they are deemed adopted if no objections are raised. Any objection? No, no objection.

And interpretation is available in 16 languages. Number three, 2026 budget section three Commission, there is no transfer request, but under the agenda point four, the other sections, there are quite a lot of transfers. And I think that the rapporteur is sitting here nearby to briefly present the requests. I give the floor first to Mr. Valter Mavrič, the Director-General, Directorate-General for Translation and Clear Language, DG TRAD.

08:11 - 09:56

Speaker 2

Yes. Yes, good morning. Good morning, Madam Chair. Thank you very much, honorable members, thank you for the opportunity to present this request.

First, maybe just a little bit of explanation why is our translation workload higher than expected. The number of files has not grown, but each one generates more amendments. In 2021, for example, which is the comparable year in the last legislative term, around 27,000 pages of amendments reached DG TRAD. If we look at this year, which is the comparable year, in the first six months of 2026 alone, we have received almost 40,000 pages of amendments. Then second, have we done anything also internally before we are coming to you?

Yes, we raised the internal production with a stable number of translators through resource-efficient multilingualism. Of course, we have let technology to handle previously translated documents, so human expertise goes really where it's genuinely needed. And a fit-for-purpose approach is tailored to each document, urgency and sensitivity. Output rose by doing this to 10 and a half net pages per translator per day, which is above benchmark and it has been like this for six consecutive months.

But of course, quality remains our main point. Finally, this is... this normally reaches all the...

09:56 - 10:28

Speaker 1

May I ask everybody, everybody has around one and one and a half minutes. We don't need everything, but the main facts perhaps. Thank you very much. Thank you in advance for approving this virement. Thank you.

We fully understood that you have more work than in 2021. This was a corona year. Nobody was here, so and there was no MFF. Now we have MFF. It's very clear that there are more amendments.

Everything fine. Ms. Skribovska for DG INLO, welcome.