Various Translations within the European Union Sample Clauses

Various Translations within the European Union. (1) The Example of the Use of the Dutch Language Another example can be found within the European Union where the 1999 Montreal Convention is part of Belgian, Dutch and EU law.219 Each linguistic service has therefore translated the text into Dutch, as the latter is one of their official languages, but not an authentic language of the 1999 216 X.X. x.°: 17, II Série, de 2006/04/26, Pág. 3412-3434. 217 Such as ‘transportador’ or ‘transportadora’. 218 Such as ‘haja ocorrido’ or ‘tiver ocorrido’. 219 See, in Belgium, loi du 13 mai 2003 portant assentiment à la Convention pour l’unification de certaines règles relatives au transport aérien international, faite à Montréal le 28 mai 1999, Moniteur belge, 18 mai 2004; in The Netherlands, Rijkswet van 3 februari 2004, Staatsblad, 21 juni 2004; in the European Union, Council Decision of 5 April 2001 on the conclusion by the European Community of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (the Montreal Convention), 2001/539/EC, Official Journal, 18 July 2001, L 194/38. Montreal Convention.220 Each translation, however, is slightly different from the others. Most of the differences essentially concern typography questions such as the use or lack of spaces,221 capital letters,222 and – perhaps more prob- lematic – commas.223 Nevertheless, in the Belgian and Netherlands translations, differences are more obvious as totally different words are used. If the word ‘omission’ is translated as ‘nalaten’ in Belgium and ‘nalatigheden’ in the Netherlands, these would however be considered as synonyms. More strikingly, to translate the concept of ‘servants or agents’, the words ‘ondergeschikten of lasthebbers’ are used in Belgium, whereas a unique word, ‘hulppersonen’, is used in the Netherlands. Each expression refers to concepts known under domestic law.224 The question becomes even more complicated, and a source of potential imbroglio, when reference is made to the translation 220 Discrepancies also exist in other air law conventions, such as the 1948 Geneva Conven- tion on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft, which is drafted in three authentic languages: English, French and Spanish. When the text needed to be translated into Dutch, the source text selected in the Netherlands was the English version. This led to controversies on the application of the accession rule to engines in light of Article XVI of said convention. Indeed, this Article provides in its English ve...