Germany Rejects ISO Standard for Legal Translation

Germany’s national organization for standardization has rejected the new ISO standard for legal translation, ISO 20771, published in April 2020.

The DIN Standards Committee Terminology said in a statement, “As the responsible DIN sub-committee, we rejected the adoption of ISO 20771:2020 into the German body of standards. The standard will therefore not appear as a DIN ISO standard and will not be published in German.” DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) is the German ISO-member body.

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