Fine tuning style and precision: Adapting directive citations to Finnish statutes

• Aino Piehl ^[1]
  1. [1] Institute for the Languages of Finland, Finland
• Localización: Linguistica Antverpiensia, ISSN-e 2295-5739, ISSN 0304-2294, Nº. 12, 2013, págs. 161-181
• Idioma: inglés
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  • When transposing EU directives into national laws, Finnish drafters usually alter the wording of the directive. This paper describes these modifications and offers some insights into the reasons behind them. The study is based on a corpus of Finnish versions of EU directives and of Finnish laws that transpose those directives.