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The European Patent Organisation The European Patent Office (EPO) is the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation, an intergovernmental organisation with currently 36 member states working to support innovation, competitiveness and economic growth in Europe. The EPO’s task is to grant European patents for inventions on the basis of a centralised procedure. With a single patent application, patent protection can be obtained in up to 38 states. Today the EPO is the second largest European organisation, with 6 700 employees from some 30 nations. The EPO has its headquarters in Munich, a branch in The Hague (most meetings are in those two cities), and offices in Berlin and Vienna. The official languages of the EPO are English, French and German. Whilst there are about 30 staff translators, the EPO relies exclusively on freelance interpreters to provide simultaneous interpretation for oral proceedings and meetings. The EPO has no staff interpreters and recruits up to 60 freelance interpreters per week (up to 100 interpreter days per week). All together, they provide some 4000 interpreter days per year. Apart from interpretation in the three official languages, there is a limited but regular demand for Japanese, Chinese and Korean. More information can be found at: http://www.epo.org
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations The FAO in Rome leads international efforts to defeat hunger. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world’s poor and hungry people. The languages of the Organization are those of the UN, that is Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and, since 2008, Russian. We occasionally use Italian, Portuguese and German. Some eighty per cent of meetings are held at Headquarters, the rest in all continents. FAO has few permanent interpreters and relies on free-lances for over 85% of its needs. The local free-lance pool is relatively small, so many interpreters are recruited from abroad. The most acute scarcity of free-lances has been, since 2008, for English with Russian. Arabic interpreters are also much in demand. On average, we provide 3500 interpreters/days at HQ, and 500 in the Field. More information can be found at: http://www.fao.org
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