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European Pharmaceutical Contractor Choosing the Right Translation Services Provider: The Key Facts
The entry of 10 new countries to the European Union signifies the inclusion of nine new official languages, along with a sizeable increase in the translation market. With 20 official EU languages, each new state that joins improves the outlook and demand for translation services. In all these countries, translation companies and freelance translators have traditionally competed for the same market, though the projects a company can take on are frequently beyond the reach of an individual translator. Companies can respond to the demand for large work volumes and tight deadlines, which are key factors in this market. This is especially true in the field of scientific translation, one of the specialisations placing most demand on the skills of the translator and his/her ability to deliver to deadlines. The translation business, in any of its specialisations but perhaps above all in the science field, requires a painstaking selection of resources; an effort to engage the loyalty of the best; the most professional translators; and the will to excel in the two elements that make for a reliable service - quality and the confidence to take on 'impossible' jobs.
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By Octavia GuzmСn, Head of Scientific Translations at Translator Legal and Financial, SL

Since 2000, Octavia GuzmСn has headed up the Scientific Translation Department of Translator Legal and Financial SL, which was created in that year. She has previously held several posts in the chemical and quality control sectors, including Head of the Commercial Department of SGS International Certification Services IbЩrica, where she co-ordinated all the group's offices in Spain. Prior to that, she was responsible for ISO 14001 and ISO 9002 implementation and certification in the laboratories of the BP Oil Espaбa refinery. She has a BSc in Chemistry, having written her degree dissertation at the organic chemistry centre of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) medical chemistry institute in Madrid. In 1999, she completed a postgraduate management programme in the pharmaceutical and health care industries at the Madrid-based Instituto de Empresa business school.