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French to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
French term or phrase:Administrateur délégué
Le Conseil d’Administration désigne en son sein un **administrateur délégué** qu’il nomme pour une durée de quatre ans reconductible
Le Conseil d’Administration peut déléguer à l’administrateur délégué la gestion journalière de l’Association et tout ou partie de ses attributions ; cette délégation ne peut porter ni sur la détermination de la politique générale de l’Association ni sur les actes spécialement réservés au Conseil par les dispositions légales ou statutaires.
Not sure how one would say this here, specifically in this context. It is not a paid position but mainly created for practical purposes to enable decisions to be made should the President or Vice-president be unavailable.
"Vice" In other words an American approach.
We have hundreds of Vice Presidents being little more than salesmen.In a company environment. Clearly Associations don't have Managing Directors But here it's an association which is entirely different. We are probably thinking of a Vice Chairman.
Gad Kohenov Local time: 10:29 Specializes in field Native speaker of: French, Hebrew PRO pts in category: 28
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Reference information: As I suspected, this question has already been asked a couple of times on Proz. See link below.
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Well, an "administrateur délégué" is someone of the board of management who is delegated by that same board to actually run the company on a day-to-day basis. He is also payed in one form or another. He is in fact the actual managing director or CEO, and not a simple replacement.
On the other hand, a board has indeed a president and a vice-president, but they don't actually run the business.
Ide Verhelst Belgium Works in field Native speaker of: Dutch
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Asker: Yes, I know it has been asked before (by myself, actually!), which is why I said "here"...
The client is not happy with "CEO", which would imply a paid position. As I said, it is a position created mainly for practical, administrative purposes to enable decisions to be made should the President or Vice-president be unavailable. The notary (in Belgium, as it is a Belgian association) seems very familiar with this specific position, and I wondered if there was an equivalent in English?
Asker: Further information from the notary:
En droit belge l'administrateur délégué est simplement une personne qui peut signer seule les actes quotidiens
Donc fort utile !
L’ag doit décider s’il y aura un salaire ou non mais ce n'est absolument pas obligatoire.
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