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w pewną formę, podporządkowywać regułom, normom, wprowadzać do czegoś
ład, organizację, urządzać, układać coś; organizować bal, wycieczkę, wyprawę,
przedsiębiorstwo, spółkę’, whereas the English word “to organize” has a very
extensive meaning, among many of its denotations there is the meaning ‘to
regulate’ and ‘to codify’. In the context, most natural equivalent would be
reguluje or określa. Other similar examples may include as well “to specify
definitions” (art. 125.2, the Treaty on European Union) translated as sprecyzować
definicje rather than określać definicje.
More to the point, one can find the examples of phraseological problems, in
a nutshell, the use of incorrect clusters of two words that cannot be combined
together. Such examples include podjąć kroki and ponieść wydatki. Article 3 of
the Declaration on Article 16 (9) of the Treaty on European Union Concerning
the European Council Decision on the Exercise of the Presidency of the Council
stipulates that “The Member States holding the Presidency shall take all necessary
measures for the organization and smooth operation of the Council’s work
with the assistance of the General Secretariat of the Council” that is translated
as Państwa Członkowskie sprawujące prezydencję podejmują przy wsparciu
Sekretariatu Generalnego Rady, wszelkie niezbędne kroki w celu zapewnienia
organizacji i płynnego przebiegu prac Rady. The same mistake is in the Protocol
(No 4) On the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and the
European Central Bank, article 14.3 where the English phrase “take the necessary
steps” in translated as podejmuje kroki niezbędne w celu. The correct
phrase should be poczynić kroki or podjąć działania as suggested and exemplified
by Hanna Jadacka (2006: 105–107). The phrase podejmować kroki is not
correct. The same applies to ponieść wydatki, the phrase that breaks the Polish
phraseology (Jadacka 2006; Słownik Poprawnej Polszczyzny); the only correct
phrase is mieć wydatki (which is even emphasized by an exclamation mark in
Słownik Poprawnej Polszczyzny). Nevertheless, the sentence “Operating expenditure
to which the implementation of this Chapter gives rise shall also be
charged to the Union budget”(art. 41, the Treaty on European Union) was translated
into Wydatki administracyjne ponoszone przez instytucje w związku z wykonywaniem
niniejszego rozdziału są pokrywane z budżetu Unii.
Sometimes the phrase in the Polish language has a slightly different connotation,
such as in the example: “The Commission shall monitor the development
of the budgetary situation and of the stock of government debt in the Member
States with a view to identifying gross errors” (art. 126.2, the Treaty on the
European Union) where gross errors is translated as oczywiste błędy. The
meaning of the English word gross errors is translated as poważne błędy or
rażące uchybienia (Łozińska-Małkiewicz & Małkiewicz 2005) rather than apparent
mistakes.