Directorate-General for Interpretation


The Directorate-General for Interpretation is a Directorate-General of the European Commission.
It is the European Commission's interpreting service and conference organiser and provides interpreters for around 11,000 meetings every year, thus being the largest interpreting service in the world.
DG Interpretation manages the allocation of Commission meeting rooms and provides support for the smooth running of meetings in many languages that are held there. It also organises conferences for Directorates-General and departments of the Commission, typically in the range of over 40 main events per year.
As of 1 June 2016, head of DG Interpretation is the Director-General, Florika Fink-Hooijer.
, former European Commissioner responsible for interpretation, and Marco Benedetti, former head of Commission's Directorate-General for Interpretation