Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
direction technique
English translation:
technical services
Added to glossary by
Nicholas Ferreira
Apr 2, 2008 22:03
16 yrs ago
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French term
direction technique
French to English
Bus/Financial
Business/Commerce (general)
I am translating a document about political influence, and one of the groups they will be focusing on is called **directions techniques**.
Here is the sentence:
identifier et analyser l’ensemble des textes existant liés à l’utilisation du tabac ; de réaliser des entretiens avec les acteurs de la planification des politiques en matière d’utilisation (législateur, décideurs politiques, **directions techniques**, niveaux opérationnels)
GDT provides a definition of this term (but not a translation-grrr!):
Définition :
Direction à vocation économique et technologique chargée d'un secteur déterminé d'activités professionnelles, industrielles, agricoles, maritimes, etc. (métallurgie, gaz et électricité, équipement naval...). Il s'agit là d'une simple dénomination de fait (en usage dans les ministères économiques) tendant à distinguer les services spécialisés des services d'administration générale, d'affaires générales ou politiques. Ex. : Le cabinet du ministre demande l'avis de la « direction technique » compétente sur un dossier qui lui est soumis.
Any suggestions? Thank you.
Here is the sentence:
identifier et analyser l’ensemble des textes existant liés à l’utilisation du tabac ; de réaliser des entretiens avec les acteurs de la planification des politiques en matière d’utilisation (législateur, décideurs politiques, **directions techniques**, niveaux opérationnels)
GDT provides a definition of this term (but not a translation-grrr!):
Définition :
Direction à vocation économique et technologique chargée d'un secteur déterminé d'activités professionnelles, industrielles, agricoles, maritimes, etc. (métallurgie, gaz et électricité, équipement naval...). Il s'agit là d'une simple dénomination de fait (en usage dans les ministères économiques) tendant à distinguer les services spécialisés des services d'administration générale, d'affaires générales ou politiques. Ex. : Le cabinet du ministre demande l'avis de la « direction technique » compétente sur un dossier qui lui est soumis.
Any suggestions? Thank you.
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
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27 mins
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technical services
Could undoubtedly be justified by any number of things, not least "the civil service", "government services". If necessary, it could be qualified by "government", but in the context I don't think that would be required.
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Note added at 34 mins (2008-04-02 22:38:02 GMT)
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Seems to me it refers to ministries, departments, and their ad hoc bodies. So that when examining winter road safety, our politicians might approach the Ministry of Transport and its agencies, the Ministry of Public Works and its agencies (SETRA, CETE, etc.), whichever ministry (and its agencies) that is reponsible for weather forecasting and analysis, and so on. These various bodies might be
"ministères", "directions", "départements", "services", "unités", "pôles", "instituts", "agences", "centres", and so on.
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Note added at 34 mins (2008-04-02 22:38:02 GMT)
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Seems to me it refers to ministries, departments, and their ad hoc bodies. So that when examining winter road safety, our politicians might approach the Ministry of Transport and its agencies, the Ministry of Public Works and its agencies (SETRA, CETE, etc.), whichever ministry (and its agencies) that is reponsible for weather forecasting and analysis, and so on. These various bodies might be
"ministères", "directions", "départements", "services", "unités", "pôles", "instituts", "agences", "centres", and so on.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks very much. In the context of this doc that refers to official Ministries and Departments, the more generic "tech services" was preferred."
+4
16 mins
Madalena Ribeiro
Works in field
24 years of experience
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, and 1 more.
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technical committee
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2001, and in total there were 107 participants at this Technical Committee Meeting. 7. The meeting was attended by representatives of Competent Authorities ...
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Peer comment(s):
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mariavaz
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Obrigada, Maria!
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Simon Charass
17 mins
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Thank you, Simon!
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Jacqueline McClure-Zerbe (X)
: This makes sense in the context.
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Thank you, Jacqueline!
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Assimina Vavoula
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Thank you, Assimina!
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Irene McClure
: To me, a Committee is something quite different - a much smaller group of individual 'experts' with a formal remit? A committee could exist alongside (or within) a much broader civil service technical department which the context seems to imply..
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19 mins
Nina Iordache
Romania
Romania
Works in field
Romania
Native in: Romanian (Variant: Romania)
Works in: English to Romanian, French to English, French to Romanian, and 1 more.
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20
technical experts
IMO
1 hr
Katarina Peters
Canada
Canada
Native in English
Specializes in field
Canada
Accuracy and A1 presentation
Native in: Hungarian 
, English (Variant: US)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Hungarian to English, and 13 more.
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55
technical assistance
or: technical guidance
3 hrs
technical support
is widely used too
1 day 21 hrs
Technical Departments
As I have worked on a lot of Market research projects (In Europe & US) we came across a this terminology thousand of times. Technical departments comprise of IT/ Maintenance/ Quality departments.
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