CJEU lawyer-linguists · AD7Competition ongoing

Legal translation. Machine-output review. Court precision.

10 source-backed modules. Exact eight-profile language matrix. Two 90-minute professional workbenches. No invented field MCQ.

155 reserve targetsTranslation · 80 pointsReview · 80 pointsVerified 31 Jul 2026

Published format

Reasoning gate and two professional tests

Official notice ↗

Verbal20 · 35 min Numerical10 · 20 min Abstract10 · 10 min · combined 20/40

90-minute translation lab 90-minute review lab Full mock scorecard Current EPSO status ↗

Correct scope: Notice tests translation and machine-translation review. It contains no specialist MCQ. Workbenches give workflow and clocks; only qualified L1 legal reviewers can assess professional quality.

Part 1

Competition map

01 · profile

Competition Status, Profiles and Duties

Eight ongoing CJEU competitions, reserve targets, applicant figures, duties and published test sequence.

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Language Matrix, Eligibility and Gates

Profile-specific L1-L3 combinations, qualifications, exact clocks, pass marks and scoring gates.

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Part 2

Court and multilingual law

03 · court

CJEU Institution, Procedure and Legal Genres

Court structure, procedure and the function of judgments, orders, opinions and pleadings.

Study module →04 · law

Multilingual EU Law and Legal Effects

Language of the case, working practices, equal authenticity, autonomous concepts and authoritative legal effects.

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Part 3

Translation method

05 · translation

Legal Translation Method

A controlled L2-to-L1 method for legal analysis, terminology, citations, syntax, register and final verification.

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Terminology, Citations and Research

IATE, EUR-Lex, Curia, parallel texts, cited provisions, case identifiers and defensible terminology records.

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Part 4

Review method

07 · review

Machine-Translation Review Method

A complete L3-source review method covering omissions, legal meaning, terminology, fluency and formatting.

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Error Taxonomy and Quality Assurance

Risk-based error classification, review passes, consistency controls and stop conditions.

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Part 5

Simulation and recruitment

09 · mock

Full Mock and Scorecard

Exact reasoning, translation and review clocks with gates and a 160-point final scorecard.

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Recruitment and Maintenance Plan

Ongoing-status monitoring, reserve-list preparation and a repeatable language-pair maintenance cycle.

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Connected preparation

EPSO/AD/424/25 preparation resources

Connect CJEU legal translation and machine-translation review knowledge with timed practice, written-test method and nearby EPSO specialist competitions. Use one route from first diagnostic to final simulation.

Competition guide