text: therearenoofficial workstandards forlanguage service staff. Translators andrevisers areexpected toproduce anaverage ofnotlessthan1,500and 3,000wordsperday,respectively. Therearenoguidelines fortypists, proof-readers andinterpreters. 11.TheWorldHealthOrganization (WHO)indicated thatconference-servicing staffareexpected toproduce thefollowing number ofstandard pages perworkday: translators (5pages), revisers (10pages), editors (30pages), proofreaders (30pages), proofreaders ofpublications (50pages), and proofreaders ofofficial records (100pages). Onaverage, revisers produce 15pagesofsummary records perdayandtypists 5,500wordsperday.With respect tointerpretation, WHO,aswellastheInternational Labour Organisation (ILO),theWorldIntellectual Property Organization, theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization (UNESCO), theFood andAgriculture Organization oftheUnitedNations (FAO),theWorld Meteorological Organization andtheUniversal Postal Union(UPU)applythe workload standards forinterpreters asdefined bytheAgreement between the -12-a, If I t I f Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryConsultative Committee onAdministrative Questions (CCAQ)andthe International Association ofConference Interpreters. ThatAgreement establishes themaximum workload forfree-lance interpreters astwomeetings a dayandstatesthataninterpreter shouldnotbecalled upontoworkformore thaneightmeetings aweek. "Meeting" meansatotalperiod oftwoandone halftoamaximum ofthreehoursfromthetimetheinterpreter isrequired to beonduty. 12.TheAdvisory Committee alsounderstands that,withrespect to translators, revisers, editors andprecis-writers, anumberofagencies and offices applytheworkload standards defined bytheAgreement between theCCAQ andtheInternational Association ofConference Translators. However, this Agreement applies onlytoshort-term employment intheabove-mentioned categories. 13.ILOindicated thattranslators produce anaverage of1,750words perpersonperday,whilerevisers produce 3,500wordsperpersonperday. 14.TheInternational Telecommunication Union(ITU)standards for interpretation areeightmeetings aweekconsisting ofamaximum oftwo3-hour meetings perday.Forprecis-writing, ITUhasspecific standards depending on thegrade-level ofthestaffmember andthelengthofthemeeting. On average, translators produce between 4,000and7,500wordsperpersonperday depending onthelanguage andrevisers between 8,000and18,000 words perpersonperday.Proofreaders produce 60pagesperday,onaverage. With regardtoreproduction, theITUworkshops areequipped toproduce amaximum of 95million pagesayear. 15.UNESCO hasstandards ofproduction fortranslators ranging fromthreeand onehalfpagestosixpagesperpersonperdaydepending onthelanguage. For typing, UNESCO requires 4to11pagesperpersonperdayaftercomposition, layout andrereading. 16.FAOindicates thataverage production incomposition typingpoolsis 5,500wordsperpersonperdayand3,500wordsperpersonperdayin audio-typing pools. Fortranslator/revisers, FAOhasused1,800wordsperday asthestandard production todetermine the1990keyunitcosts. For reproduction, anaverage of14,425pagesperdayhasbeenused. Forverbatim reporting FAOhirespeopletoservice twomeetings perday,whichshouldnot exceedsixhoursinduration. 17.UPUusesstandards of1,875wordsperpersonperdayfortranslators, 4,500wordsperpersonperdayforrevisers and3,000wordsperpersonperday fortypists. Therearenostandards forreproduction. 18.TheAdvisory Committee pointsoutthatworkload standards areintended to beindicators ofgeneral applicability thatcanbeusedasabasisfora standardized approach tothecalculation ofconference-servicing costs. However, asindicated above,exceptforinterpretation, forwhichthereexists anagreement thatisgenerally applied byanumberoftheagencies, thereare nounified workload standards forconference-servicing staffintheUnited Nations system. TheAdvisory Committee recommends thattheSecretariat, in thecontext oftheappropriate inter-agency consultations, shouldexplore the possibilities ofintroducing uniform standards wherever possible inthose -13-
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the workload standards for language service staff, including translators, revisers, editors, typists, proofreaders, and interpreters, in various international organizations. The text provides specific examples of production standards for each category of staff, as well as standards for reproduction and interpretation. The purpose of these standards seems to be to establish a basis for calculating the costs of conference-servicing staff.