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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7544399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7544399) [\#7554368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7554368)) - Jusqu'ici, les **directives** relatives aux régions montagneuses étaient uniquement basées, sur le plan juridique, sur les politiques agricoles. So far, **guidelines** for hill and mountain areas were based, in law, solely on agricultural policies. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1131666) - les **directives** techniques internationales sur les munitions; International Ammunition Technical **Guidelines**; ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4555593) - **Directives** relatives à la signalisation **Guidelines** for Waterway Signs ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 28075301) - Ce sont uniquement des **directives**, non des règles absolues. These are just **guidelines**, not hard and fast rules. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#950973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950973) [\#951046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/951046)) ## directives Used about 23 287 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 668 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 738 · UN documents ≈ 9 881). Forms: directive, directives. - Je le remercie pour son engagement et sa foi en ces deux **directives**. I thank him for his commitment and belief in both these **directives**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 402004) - **Directives** 2004/9/CE et 2004/10/CE. **Directive** 2004/9/EC and Directive 2004/10/EC. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1431751) - Reporting **Directives** for the Creditor Reporting System, Addendum. Reporting **Directives** for the Creditor Reporting System, Addendum. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 28337966) - D’autre part, nous avons besoin de **directives** qui concourent à la libéralisation. On the other hand, we need the **directives** that have liberalising effects. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 670401) - **Directives** abrogées avec liste de leurs modifications successives Repealed **Directives** with list of their successive amendments ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2313281) ## eec Used about 213 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 213). - Les **directives** du Conseil 90/385/CEE \[3\] et 93/42/CEE \[4\] forment le cadre réglementaire de l'Union régissant les dispositifs médicaux autres que les dispositifs médicaux de diagnostic in vitro. Council Directive 90/385/**EEC** \[3\] and Council Directive 93/42/EEC \[4\] constitute the Union regulatory framework for medical devices, other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4311927) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Nous reçûmes des **directives** sur comment réaliser un panier en bambou. We received instructions on how to make a bamboo basket. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#249068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249068) [\#1619028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1619028)) - Ainsi, certaines **directives** prévoyaient des délais de sept jours ouvrables, d'autres de sept jours. In some cases there are deadlines or periods of seven working days, and in others just seven days. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2027921) - Pour conclure, merci encore à tous ceux qui ont pris part au travail sur ces **directives**. Finally, thank you again to all those of you who have been involved in working on this package. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 459609) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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