European institutions open IATE terminological database to the public
29/6/2007 – The European institutions have just officially inaugurated a new database that holds all the terminology they generate. The database, called IATE (Inter-Active Terminology for Europe), contains 8,700,000 terms, 500,000 abbreviations and 100,000 phrases in the 23 official languages of the EU. As of yesterday, June 28, anyone can access it online.
The opening ceremony was organised by the European Commission and the European Parliament, and was attended by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Leonard Orban, the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Miguel Ángel Martínez, and other representatives of the European institutions.