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French: charte ethique

English translation: charter of ethics







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French term or phrase:charte ethique
English translation:charter of ethics
Entered by:Robert Schlarb
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French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / company report
French term or phrase: charte ethique
Employees getting upset

"Ils ont meme ete jusqu'a bruler la charte ethique en place
publique"
Kpy
France
charter of ethics
Explanation:
more common
http://www.ieice.org/eng/about/ethics.html
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Robert Schlarb
Austria
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Thanks, Robert, and to you all for your help
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6charter of ethics
Robert Schlarb
5 +3code of ethicstranslatol
4 +2ethical charter
Richard Benham
4 +1ethics charter / ethical code
Joao Vieira


  


Answers

5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
ethical charter

Explanation:
Why not?

Richard Benham
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
28 mins

agree Elena Petelos
4 hrs
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
charter of ethics

Explanation:
more common
http://www.ieice.org/eng/about/ethics.html

Robert Schlarb
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks, Robert, and to you all for your help

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree SwissTell
2 mins

agree Richard Benham: This is OK too, but mine gets 3040 Google hits as opposed to 1150. This is not significant in itself, but it does suggest "ethical charter" may be commoner than you think..//"Ethical" can be either concerned with etics or complying with ethical standards.
5 mins
  -> True, but I have the impression that "ethical charter" is a rather wooden rendition from other languages; is there not a slight difference between a charter that is ethical and one that is about ethics?

agree Vicky Papaprodromou
24 mins

agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne
2 hrs

agree peekay: although you will ifnd it synonymous with "code of ethics" these days
2 hrs

agree Elena Petelos
4 hrs
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
ethics charter / ethical code

Explanation:
An ethics charter can also be known as ethical code or conduct. This particular usage I would use ethics charter since it seems to be statutory within the company.

Joao Vieira
Portugal
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Richard Benham: A "code" is not the sort of thing you burn, whereas a "charter" can refer either to the code or the piece of paper it's written on. "Ethics charter" is not idiomatic English.
3 mins
  -> agree Richard but as you may see I personally chose ethics charter. However, a "code" CAN be burned in public as a symbolic gesture. Personally don't think you have to use an idiomatic form here.

agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne: "Code of Ethics" works perfectly well. Note : statutory bodies gvng lib. prof. in such matters differentiate between the Code of (Professional) Conduct and Ethics - not quite the same... (2) Code / charter are the potentially same
2 hrs
  -> Tks Nikki. In fact, there is no such thing as a pattern. Code and ethics are sometimes misused as conduct and vice-versa. Unions usually talk of a code while institutions/corporations refer to a charter. Your code of ethics is also acceptable.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
code of ethics

Explanation:
The translators association that I belong to has a Code of Ethics.

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Note added at 4 hrs 33 mins (2004-07-25 17:49:41 GMT)
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Although I have to admit that in French it\'s called `déontologie\', so now I\'m not so sure.

translatol
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Jane Lamb-Ruiz: this is what you see on the CORPORATE GOVERNANCE sites...this is the LINGO
1 hr
  -> Thank you very much.

agree TesCor -
1 hr
  -> Thank you very much.

agree Philip Taylor
2 hrs
  -> Thank you very much.
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