The EU Law Translations and Foreign Language Interpreting/ Translation in the EU
Translation-related and foreign language interpretation issues often come up in the courtrooms, as well as when conducting business in the EU. According to the EU case C-161/06 Skoma-Lux, the Court of Justice held that the obligations contained in the European Commission's legislation that was not published in the Official Journal using the language of the Member State in which enforcement is sought cannot be enforced against that State. In this particular case, a specific Article in the Act of Accession for the Czech Republic was not published in Czech. The reason for this ruling - which is applicable to both legal and natural persons in a Member State - is to allow the party to familiarize itself with the law in a language they can understand. According to the court, this is only possible with the act being translated into the language of all parties it applies to.

