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=Welcome to CC's License and Legal Tools Translation Project!=
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=Welcome to the CC Translation Project!=
 
''Please note this is an evolving project and we welcome feedback.''
 
''Please note this is an evolving project and we welcome feedback.''
  
This is the main portal for projects translating the suite of six CC licenses and the CC0 waiver.
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This is the main portal for projects translating the suite of six CC licenses and the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. For information on translating CC license deeds, visit [[Translating_CC_Deeds|Translating CC Deeds]]. If you are interested in translating the licenses or other legal tools, please see the [[Legal Code Translation Policy]].
  
If the CC license deeds are not yet available in your language, we suggest beginning translation work with those.  The deeds are simpler and read more often than the license legal text. To work on translating the license deeds, visit [[Translating_CC_Deeds|Translating CC Deeds]].
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==Translations Generally==
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Beginning with version 4.0, CC is supporting official linguistic translations of its six (6) core licenses. '''Please note that translations involve linguistic translation only—they do not adapt the licenses or CC0 to account for local law.''' As of December 2012, CC also supports official translations of CC0 version 1.0. 
  
==Languages with fully translated licenses and legal tools==
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Please see the [[Legal Code Translation Policy]] for more information on how to start a project to translate CC0 or the CC licenses officially into your local language. CC's policy is to support a single official translation into any particular language, absent a compelling reason otherwise. All legal code translation projects must be approved by Creative Commons in advance; please do not start a legal code translation project without first contacting Creative Commons.
None at this time
 
  
==Languages currently being translated==
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(For version 3.0 of the licenses, CC supports unofficial translations only.  These are not official and not suitable for adoption, but are provided solely for information purposes. '''Please do not use translations of the 3.0 international licenses—licensors should not link to or otherwise identify any of the unofficial translations when applying licenses to their materials.''' Those interested in translating CC licenses should join a translation project for the 4.0 licenses. If you would like to read the process for unofficial translations of 3.0, it has been moved [[Unofficial_translation_process_for_3.0|to a separate page]] for historical information.)
* [ar] Arabic (currently not posted)
 
* [sq] [[AlbanianLicenses|Albanian]]
 
* [id] [[IndonesianLicenses|Indonesian]]
 
* [ms] [[MalayLicenses|Malay]]
 
* [ru] [[RussianLicenses|Russian]]
 
  
'''Note:''' Translations are to help people understand Creative Commons licenses by allowing them to read the licenses in their own languages.  The English licenses will remain the legally controlling versions unless otherwise noted.
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==Translation Guide==
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As we work with teams on translation projects, we are developing collections of advice and issues to guide future teams' efforts. These include general proofing advice, as well as common errors, and words and phrases that are of key importance or have presented difficulty in each particular legal tool.
  
==Translation Process==
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*Read the [[Legal tools translation guide]].
'''Who:''' Translation teams may be composed of one or more Affiliate Teams from the CC Affiliate Network and other volunteers within the Creative Commons Community who are interested in making the licenses accessible to a wider community.  We strongly suggest having at least one lawyer fluent in both languages on the team because words can often have very specific legal meanings.
 
  
'''Step 1:''' The translation team works on a first draft, literal translation of the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ international CC licenses] or [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode CC0].  Contact the team to find out how to contribute to the translation.  Every translated license must include the following disclaimer, also translated:
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<div id="Published_translations"></div>
:"This is an unofficial translation of the Creative Commons ''license title'' into ''language''. It was not published by Creative Commons and does not legally state the terms of the license—only the original English text of the Creative Commons ''license title'' does that. However, we hope that this translation will help language speakers understand the CC ''license title'' better."
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==Translation status of the 4.0 licenses and of CC0==
  
'''Step 2:''' When a draft translation is ready, the translation team posts the draft on the wiki for public comment.
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! style="background-color:#CCCCCC;" | Language (and link to language page) || style="background-color:#CCCCCC;" | 4.0 translation status || style="background-color:#CCCCCC;" | CC0 translation status
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Amharic Amharic] || In progress - final review (Step 7) || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Arabic Arabic] || Final - published February 2017 ([https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/arabic-croatian-translations/ read]) || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Bahasa_Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia] || Final - published July 2015 ([https://creativecommons.org/2015/08/05/4-0-bahasa-indonesia-translation-and-a-book/ read]) || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Basque Basque] || Final - published October 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/10/03/latvian-4-0-and-basque-4-0-and-cc0-translations-now-available/ read]) || Final - published October 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/10/03/latvian-4-0-and-basque-4-0-and-cc0-translations-now-available/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Belarusian Belarusian] || Not started || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Bulgarian Bulgarian] || In progress - public comment period (Step 4) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Catalan Catalan] || Not started || In progress - review of draft (Step 3)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Chinese_-_Traditional_and_Simplified Chinese - Traditional and Simplified] || Simplified published in Dec 2019; <br/>Traditional published in January 2020 ([https://creativecommons.org/2020/01/02/cc-licenses-in-simplified-traditional-chinese/ read]) || Final - published March 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/12/cc0-now-available-simplified-traditional-chinese-languages/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/ChiShona ChiShona] || In Progress - preparing draft (Step 2)  ||  Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Cree Cree] || Not started  ||  Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Croatian Croatian] || Final - published February 2017 ([https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/arabic-croatian-translations/ read]) || Final - published July 2020
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Czech Czech] || Final - published June 2019 ([https://creativecommons.org/2019/08/05/new-official-translations-of-cc-legal-tools-published-for-korean-and-czech/ read]) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Danish Danish] || In progress - public comment period (Step 4) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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|-
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Dutch Dutch] || Final - published February 2015 ([https://creativecommons.org/2015/02/25/dutch-translation-of-4-0-published/ read]) || Final - published March 2014 ([https://creativecommons.org/2014/03/18/first-cc0-official-translation-in-dutch/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Estonian Estonian] || In progress - public comment period (Step 4) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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|-
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Finnish Finnish] || Final - published November 2014 ([https://creativecommons.org/2014/11/12/finnish-translation-of-4-0-published/ read])|| Final - published January 2015
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/French French] || Final - published June 2017 ([https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/28/cc-accueille-les-francophones-welcome-cc-4-0-french-license-translations/ read]) || Final - published June 2014 ([https://creativecommons.org/2014/06/27/cc0-official-translation-into-french-published/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/German German] || Final - published January 2017 ([https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/23/german-4-0/ read in English] and [https://netzpolitik.org/2017/offizielle-deutsche-uebersetzung-der-cc-lizenzversion-4-0-ist-da/ in German]) || In progress - final review (Step 7)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Greek Greek] || Final - published November 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/12/12/ccs-4-0-license-suite-now-in-greek/ read]) || Final - published November 2019
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Hindi Hindi] || Not started || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Hungarian Hungarian] || In progress - public comment period (Step 4) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Italian Italian] || Final - published July 2017 ([https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/31/annuncia-la-traduzione-4-0-della-licenza-italiano/ read]) || Final - published July 2017
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Irish Irish] || In progress - public comment period (Step 4) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Japanese Japanese] || Final - published July 2015 || Final - published April 2015 ([https://creativecommons.org/2015/05/05/japanese-translation-of-cc0-published/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Korean Korean] || Final - published August 2019 ([https://creativecommons.org/2019/08/05/new-official-translations-of-cc-legal-tools-published-for-korean-and-czech/ read]) || Final - published August 2019 ([https://creativecommons.org/2019/08/05/new-official-translations-of-cc-legal-tools-published-for-korean-and-czech/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Latvian Latvian] || Final - published October 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/10/03/latvian-4-0-and-basque-4-0-and-cc0-translations-now-available/ read]) || Final - published October 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/10/03/latvian-4-0-and-basque-4-0-and-cc0-translations-now-available/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Lithuanian Lithuanian] || Final - published June 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/12/lithuanian-translation-of-4-0-available-for-use/ read]) || Final - published June 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/12/lithuanian-translation-of-4-0-available-for-use/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Malay Malay] || Not started || In progress - preparing draft (Step 2)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Maltese Maltese] || In progress - public comment period (Step 4) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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|-
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/M%C4%81ori Māori] || Final - published July 2015 || Not started
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|-
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Norwegian Norwegian] || Final - published December 2014 ([https://creativecommons.org/2014/12/23/norwegian-translation-of-4-0-published/ read]) || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Polish Polish] || Final - published April 2016 ([https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/15/polish-translation/ read in English] and in [http://creativecommons.pl/2016/11/licencje-4-0-po-polsku/ Polish]) || Final - published October 2015 ([https://creativecommons.org/2015/10/09/cc0-now-available-in-polish-official-translation-published/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Portuguese Portuguese] || Final - published June 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/26/portuguese-translation-of-4-0-now-available/ read]) || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Romanian Romanian] || Final - published July 2020 ([https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/15/cc-license-and-cc0-available-in-romanian/ read]) || Final - published July 2020 ([https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/15/cc-license-and-cc0-available-in-romanian/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Russian Russian] || Final - published April 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/20/russian-translation-of-4-0-published/ read]) || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Serbian Serbian] || In progress - public comment (Step 4) || In progress - public comment (Step 4)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Slovak Slovak] || In progress - final review (Step 7) || In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Slovenian Slovenian] || Final - published June 2020 ([https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/08/the-cc-license-suite-4-0-and-cc0-are-now-available-in-slovenian/ read]) || Final - published June 2020 ([https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/08/the-cc-license-suite-4-0-and-cc0-are-now-available-in-slovenian/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Castellano Spanish (Castellano)] || Final - published September 2018 ([https://creativecommons.org/2018/09/11/spanish-translation-of-4-0-now-available-la-traduccion-al-castellano-de-la-version-4-0-de-las-licencias-esta-ahora-disponible/ read]) || Final - published June 2019 ([https://creativecommons.org/2019/06/10/spanish-cc0-translation/ read])
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Swedish Swedish] || Final - published January 2017 ([https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/11/announcing-swedish-translation-4-0-license/ read]) || Final - published January 2017
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Turkish Turkish] || Final - published May 2017 ([https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/25/creative-commons-4-0-license-now-turkish/ read in English] and in [http://creativecommons.org.tr/creative-commons-4-0-lisanslari-simdi-turkce/ Turkish]) || Not started
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| [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Ukrainian Ukrainian] || Final - published June 2015 ([https://creativecommons.org/2015/06/24/ukrainian-translation-of-cc-4-0/ read]) || Not started
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'''Step 3:''' The public comment period lasts from several weeks to several months depending on the engagement of the community and allows for conversations around word choice and tricky translations.
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[[Category:Legal]]
 
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[[Category:Translation Project]]
'''Step 4:''' Incorporate comments from the communities into a new draft.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Protocol for Official Translation - coming soon
 

Revision as of 18:49, 22 July 2020

Welcome to the CC Translation Project!

Please note this is an evolving project and we welcome feedback.

This is the main portal for projects translating the suite of six CC licenses and the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. For information on translating CC license deeds, visit Translating CC Deeds. If you are interested in translating the licenses or other legal tools, please see the Legal Code Translation Policy.

Translations Generally

Beginning with version 4.0, CC is supporting official linguistic translations of its six (6) core licenses. Please note that translations involve linguistic translation only—they do not adapt the licenses or CC0 to account for local law. As of December 2012, CC also supports official translations of CC0 version 1.0.

Please see the Legal Code Translation Policy for more information on how to start a project to translate CC0 or the CC licenses officially into your local language. CC's policy is to support a single official translation into any particular language, absent a compelling reason otherwise. All legal code translation projects must be approved by Creative Commons in advance; please do not start a legal code translation project without first contacting Creative Commons.

(For version 3.0 of the licenses, CC supports unofficial translations only. These are not official and not suitable for adoption, but are provided solely for information purposes. Please do not use translations of the 3.0 international licenses—licensors should not link to or otherwise identify any of the unofficial translations when applying licenses to their materials. Those interested in translating CC licenses should join a translation project for the 4.0 licenses. If you would like to read the process for unofficial translations of 3.0, it has been moved to a separate page for historical information.)

Translation Guide

As we work with teams on translation projects, we are developing collections of advice and issues to guide future teams' efforts. These include general proofing advice, as well as common errors, and words and phrases that are of key importance or have presented difficulty in each particular legal tool.

Translation status of the 4.0 licenses and of CC0

Language (and link to language page) 4.0 translation status CC0 translation status
Amharic In progress - final review (Step 7) Not started
Arabic Final - published February 2017 (read) Not started
Bahasa Indonesia Final - published July 2015 (read) Not started
Basque Final - published October 2018 (read) Final - published October 2018 (read)
Belarusian Not started Not started
Bulgarian In progress - public comment period (Step 4) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Catalan Not started In progress - review of draft (Step 3)
Chinese - Traditional and Simplified Simplified published in Dec 2019;
Traditional published in January 2020 (read)
Final - published March 2018 (read)
ChiShona In Progress - preparing draft (Step 2) Not started
Cree Not started Not started
Croatian Final - published February 2017 (read) Final - published July 2020
Czech Final - published June 2019 (read) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Danish In progress - public comment period (Step 4) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Dutch Final - published February 2015 (read) Final - published March 2014 (read)
Estonian In progress - public comment period (Step 4) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Finnish Final - published November 2014 (read) Final - published January 2015
French Final - published June 2017 (read) Final - published June 2014 (read)
German Final - published January 2017 (read in English and in German) In progress - final review (Step 7)
Greek Final - published November 2018 (read) Final - published November 2019
Hindi Not started Not started
Hungarian In progress - public comment period (Step 4) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Italian Final - published July 2017 (read) Final - published July 2017
Irish In progress - public comment period (Step 4) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Japanese Final - published July 2015 Final - published April 2015 (read)
Korean Final - published August 2019 (read) Final - published August 2019 (read)
Latvian Final - published October 2018 (read) Final - published October 2018 (read)
Lithuanian Final - published June 2018 (read) Final - published June 2018 (read)
Malay Not started In progress - preparing draft (Step 2)
Maltese In progress - public comment period (Step 4) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Māori Final - published July 2015 Not started
Norwegian Final - published December 2014 (read) Not started
Polish Final - published April 2016 (read in English and in Polish) Final - published October 2015 (read)
Portuguese Final - published June 2018 (read) Not started
Romanian Final - published July 2020 (read) Final - published July 2020 (read)
Russian Final - published April 2018 (read) Not started
Serbian In progress - public comment (Step 4) In progress - public comment (Step 4)
Slovak In progress - final review (Step 7) In progress - public comment period (Step 4)
Slovenian Final - published June 2020 (read) Final - published June 2020 (read)
Spanish (Castellano) Final - published September 2018 (read) Final - published June 2019 (read)
Swedish Final - published January 2017 (read) Final - published January 2017
Turkish Final - published May 2017 (read in English and in Turkish) Not started
Ukrainian Final - published June 2015 (read) Not started