Activities

Unless otherwise provided by law, our main scope of business is to prepare attested translations, to authenticate translations, and to certify copies of foreign language documents pursuant to Section 5 of Decree No. 24/1986. (VI.26.) MT of the Council of Ministers, and to provide interpreting services. In addition to the above services we make every effort to meet all other needs of our customers.

The documents generated by OFFI are provided with the coat of arms of the Republic of Hungary and a round seal. Also known as certified translations, attested translations may primarily be made of public and private documents for the purpose of use in official procedures, which shall qualify as documents of public authenticity under the relevant statutory provisions.

We make an effort to provide customer-friendly services, paying special attention to our customers’ needs and requirements. In this we are assisted by nearly five hundred external and about fifty internal professional translators and editors, and approximately two hundred clerical and executive staff.

Thanks to our professional translators and editors we are able to prepare high-quality translations practically in all languages and all fields. In fulfilling special responsibilities, the mutual and excellent professional co-operation with the ministries, the foreign affairs authorities, the colleagues of the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the Faculty of Arts of Eötvös Loránd University and the members of the Association of Hungarian Translators and Interpreters is a great help to us. Our translators and interpreters possess the professional qualifications prescribed in the relevant ministerial decree.

OFFI is also aiming to provide high-quality interpreting services to clients. We provide experienced and presentable professionals with conference interpreter qualification in multiple working languages in accordance with the expectations of the European Union. Our interpreters provide consecutive, simultaneous and liaison interpreting services in a variety of fields including economics, law, finance, computer technology, telecommunications, communications, environmental protection, transport, construction, education, medicine, natural science, etc. They are capable of working between foreign directly or through Hungarian.

We frequently work with confidential information in the course of translation and interpreting. On the one hand, the requirement of utmost reliability of work and information management is observed as a basic rule of the translator and interpreter profession; on the other hand, all of our professionals are obliged to sign strictly sanctioned confidentiality statements.