regulation

Which translation, when

Why

Regulation names an instrument in English and machine output hears an activity. The EU regulation is officially die Verordnung, Art. 288 AEUV, binding in its entirety and directly applicable, cited as Verordnung (EU) 2016/679, while the directive next door is die Richtlinie and needs transposition. At national level the regulations made under statute are Rechtsverordnungen, executive norms resting on an authorisation that must state Inhalt, Zweck und Ausmaß, Art. 80 Abs. 1 GG, a rank below the Gesetz and above the administrative circular. Regulierung, the machine’s favourite, is genuinely thriving German for the process, banking supervision, network regulation, die Regulierungsbehörde, which is exactly why the slip survives proofreading, the word is native, just never the name of one binding act with a number. And the rulebooks of private and self-governing bodies run on their own shelf, the regulations of a club or exchange are its Satzung or Ordnung, rulebooks of the body itself, and Verordnung there would misfile them among the executive’s norms.

Typical mistakes

• Die Regulierung (EU) 2016/679 cites an activity, the instrument is die Verordnung, and the slip survives because Regulierung is thriving German for supervision.
• National regulations are Rechtsverordnungen, executive norms on statutory authorisation, Art. 80 Abs. 1 GG, and promoting them to Gesetze grants a rank the constitution withholds.
• The regulations of a club or exchange are its Satzung or Ordnung, rulebooks of the body itself, and Verordnung there misfiles them among the executive’s norms.

What matters

Compliance memos cite the instrument by rank: processing is governed by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 reads richtet sich nach der Verordnung (EU) 2016/679, unmittelbar anwendbar, Art. 288 AEUV, while the national implementing rules arrive as Rechtsverordnungen, Art. 80 GG. Die Regulierung as the cited source names the weather instead of the rain.

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