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Question 3 has some silly errors: it turned "investments in infrastructure and generation capacity" into something like "investments in infrastructural and generation capacity"; and "Increase the share of EU financial support" was translated by dropping "the share of".
Regarding question 4, I ask a question does 'competitive' there have the meaning "competition-based" (e.g. marketised)? If yes, another minor mistranslation. In the choices, methinks significant omission: from "Focus on cost effective savings of energy", cost-effective is dropped. In "Decrease dependency on imported fuels", 'imported fuels' becomes 'imports' (that would include electricity, but I don't see this difference as a big problem). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The first impression is that the translator didn't really knew the corresponding Hungarian technical expressions (and was guessing).
Bingo, same impression as the French version gave me. Whereas the Eng-lang questionnaire echoes the Eng-lang Green Paper, the French questionnaire didn't make use of the competent GP translation...
Q4 : I take "competitive" to mean "competition-based", rather than "in competition with one another". But the word is thrown around loosely by the GP drafters:
A truly competitive single European electricity and gas market would bring down prices, improve security of supply, and boost competitiveness. (p.5)
(Exploding heads please queue up, the nurse will see you shortly).
"Cost-effective" is important, it's really the core of that response: only do energy savings that come through cost-effectiveness studies well. (Imagine wizened gnomes in mountain hideout counting piles of ancient coins while outside the planet roasts).
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