09/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 9 July, the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) announced that is launching new competitions to find interpreters and translators to work in the European Union institutions. On 13 July 2010, EPSO will begin the selection procedure for translators into Danish, German, English, French and Slovenian. A week later, it will launch competitions for interpreters into Bulgarian, English, Dutch, Romanian and Slovenian. These are the first of EPSO's new annual recruitment drives for linguists, which will take place every summer. They are also the first linguist competitions under the new, streamlined selection procedures first unveiled in March. For translators, recruitment will be at graduate entry grade (AD5), while for interpreters, recruitment will be at both AD5 and the AD7 grade, which requires more professional experience. The languages will change from year to year, based on the recruitment needs of the institutions and agencies. (L.C./transl.fl)