Frédéric
Dufour – Administrator – Publications Standards – CCMC
My name is Frédéric Dufour and I am French. After receiving a postgraduate degree in English, I then went on to study translation of English and German. I enjoy learning languages and these days I keep up with German but am also picking up a few words from other languages. I am an avid reader and enjoy going to the cinema and concerts, and exercising a bit (e.g. swimming and yoga). I have been working as an editor at CCMC for more than six years now, and am in charge of editing and circulating deliverables at the Final Draft and Publication stages.
What are you working on right now?
What help
does CCMC offer to Technical Body meetings in terms of the drafting of European
deliverables?
We
at Standards Publications often provide TC members and experts with our advice
regarding the layout and structure of a text at drafting stage. This help
during the drafting stages can avoid delays at later stages. This service we
offer aims at helping and guiding TCs so that their deliverables meet the
editorial rules of the Internal Regulations
Part 3 and CEN-CENELEC guides and guidelines. Asking us to come to a
meeting also provides TCs with a different outlook and perspective on the
deliverables they are working on.
During
meetings, the CCMC editors also guide and advise TC members and experts through
a more practical and pragmatic viewpoint, e.g. by informing them as to the
person and/or department to contact regarding potential extra-editorial issues
or by helping and finding the relevant source of information in the elaboration
of a deliverable.
Do
you need our expertise for the drafting of a draft? Would you like to have one
of our editors come and bring her or his know-how? We are a limited size team
so we can't be present at every meeting, but please feel free to contact us (production@cencenelec.eu)!Frédéric Dufour (fdufour@cencenelec.eu)
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I hope you can force yourself to read technical journals, so as to keep up with the rapidly-changing technical vocabularies in each language. This is quite difficult, even for committee members, and it does occasionaly result in a difference of opinion between the editor and committee members: 'We always say it like that, these days.'
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