Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
allmän handling
English translation:
public document
Added to glossary by
Larissa Ekonoja
Apr 13, 2005 13:14
19 yrs ago
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Swedish term
Sweden
Technical Translator - Native Speaker
Native in: English 
Works in: Swedish to English, Norwegian to English, English
allmän handling
Swedish to English
Bus/Financial
Business/Commerce (general)
Proposal/tender
Context: Anbudet blir allmän handling, men ej offentlig handling, när anbuden öppnats.
This is from a tender request, paragraph covering sekretess.
About allmän handling under Swedish law:
Alla handlingar som upprättats eller är tillgängliga hos en statlig eller kommunal myndighet, t ex genom att de inkommit till myndigheten är allmänna handlingar. Det kan vara allt ifrån skriftliga dokument, bandinspelningar och dataregister och olika sammanställningar som enkelt går att framställa ur olika register genom en rutinbetonad åtgärd.Allmänna handlingar är offentliga om de inte uttryckligen är hemliga enligt sekretesslagen.(se även offentlig handling och hemlig handling)
Basically in this tender request they are stating that tenders will not be public (as would generally happen under Sweden's sekretesslag) but instead will be classified until the tender is awarded. The tender proposals are coming into a government agency (hence allmänna handlingar). They are however not official documents, and not public either....
Here's a little more info:
A change of terminology was proposed concerning the regulation of Chapter 2 of the Freedom of the Press Act. More precisely, instead of using the central concept "public document" ("allmän handling") the expression "public data" ("allmän uppgift") has been introduced. This was motivated mostly by the fact that this concept is believed to be technically neutral and that the Secrecy Act (from 1980) is already based upon it.
However, public is not really the correct word. For instance, a document you send to the university regarding a grade is 'allmän' but I would not consider this a public document, nor official.
As far as I can tell (with the help of a lawyer also) there's no good english term for allmän handling, so I think this needs a rewrite..
Does anyone have experience with this in this context?
This is from a tender request, paragraph covering sekretess.
About allmän handling under Swedish law:
Alla handlingar som upprättats eller är tillgängliga hos en statlig eller kommunal myndighet, t ex genom att de inkommit till myndigheten är allmänna handlingar. Det kan vara allt ifrån skriftliga dokument, bandinspelningar och dataregister och olika sammanställningar som enkelt går att framställa ur olika register genom en rutinbetonad åtgärd.Allmänna handlingar är offentliga om de inte uttryckligen är hemliga enligt sekretesslagen.(se även offentlig handling och hemlig handling)
Basically in this tender request they are stating that tenders will not be public (as would generally happen under Sweden's sekretesslag) but instead will be classified until the tender is awarded. The tender proposals are coming into a government agency (hence allmänna handlingar). They are however not official documents, and not public either....
Here's a little more info:
A change of terminology was proposed concerning the regulation of Chapter 2 of the Freedom of the Press Act. More precisely, instead of using the central concept "public document" ("allmän handling") the expression "public data" ("allmän uppgift") has been introduced. This was motivated mostly by the fact that this concept is believed to be technically neutral and that the Secrecy Act (from 1980) is already based upon it.
However, public is not really the correct word. For instance, a document you send to the university regarding a grade is 'allmän' but I would not consider this a public document, nor official.
As far as I can tell (with the help of a lawyer also) there's no good english term for allmän handling, so I think this needs a rewrite..
Does anyone have experience with this in this context?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | public document |
Helen Johnson
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| 5 +3 | public document |
Mats Wiman
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| 3 +3 | official document |
Kristina Thorne
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Proposed translations
3 hrs
Helen Johnson
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Taught MA translation at Uni of Surrey
Native in: English 
Works in: Swedish to English, Danish to English, Norwegian to English
Related KudoZ points
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7
Swedish term (edited):
allm�n handling
Selected
public document
Difficult one! Would it not be possible to say 'public document (in the sense of a document concerning the public) but not an openly publicised/a publicised document' (in the sense that information has not yet been generally revealed to the public)? I'm not sure how else you could get around it.
Hope you find my reasoning useful.
Hope you find my reasoning useful.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Hi all, and thanks for the comments. This is a very tricky situation, but I chose to write more or less as Helen specified here, that is, public documents but not publicly accessible. In the end I called a British lawyer who said that a document coming from the government can be considered 'official' but tht kind of weight can not be placed on a document simply received by a government office.
"
+3
52 mins
Mats Wiman
Sweden
Sweden
Native in Swedish
Works in field
Sweden
DEU / ENG / FRA / SPA > SWE since 1982
Native in: Swedish (Variant: Stockholm)
Works in: German to Swedish, English to Swedish, Swedish
Related KudoZ points
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37
Swedish term (edited):
allm�n handling
public document
;-)
+3
10 mins
Kristina Thorne
France
France
Native in Swedish
Specializes in field
France
Your words the way you meant them
Native in: Swedish , Finnish
Works in: French to Finnish, English to Finnish, English to Swedish, and 3 more.
Swedish term (edited):
allm�n handling
official document
Could you use official document in this case? I agree that "public" has a connotation of being available upon request, whereas official would simply indicate that a document has been entered into the archives/registry of a public institution.
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Note added at 1 hr 10 mins (2005-04-13 14:24:24 GMT)
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Official document
(allmän handling)
A document is classified as public if it has been submitted to, was drawn up by or is in the keeping of a public authority. The principle of public access states that all official documents are public and, unless classified as secret, must be made available to all who wish to read them. See also principle of public access and secrecy.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2979/m/wai#O
(No reference to public documents in other contexts on that site.)
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Note added at 2 hrs 5 mins (2005-04-13 15:19:27 GMT)
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You will also find allmän handling translated as official document in Ordlista för domstolsväsendet, http://www.dom.se/dom/DVhemsida/Domstolsvasendet/ordlista.pd...
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Note added at 2 hrs 10 mins (2005-04-13 15:24:28 GMT)
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Följande utdrag ur Karl-Erik Tallmos artikel \"Den personliga uppgiften - offentlig, uthängd eller skyddad?\" är kanske något att gå efter. http://www.nisus.se/archive/pul_ny.html
\"För det andra är det bara svenskan som har uttrycket allmän handling. I (EU-)direktivets engelska version står det \"public access to official documents\", och franskan har \"documents adminstratifs\". När uttrycket översätts, översätts det samtidigt till en helt annan rättslig tradition, där sekretess är grundregeln, inte offentlighet.\"
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Note added at 1 hr 10 mins (2005-04-13 14:24:24 GMT)
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Official document
(allmän handling)
A document is classified as public if it has been submitted to, was drawn up by or is in the keeping of a public authority. The principle of public access states that all official documents are public and, unless classified as secret, must be made available to all who wish to read them. See also principle of public access and secrecy.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2979/m/wai#O
(No reference to public documents in other contexts on that site.)
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Note added at 2 hrs 5 mins (2005-04-13 15:19:27 GMT)
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You will also find allmän handling translated as official document in Ordlista för domstolsväsendet, http://www.dom.se/dom/DVhemsida/Domstolsvasendet/ordlista.pd...
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Note added at 2 hrs 10 mins (2005-04-13 15:24:28 GMT)
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Följande utdrag ur Karl-Erik Tallmos artikel \"Den personliga uppgiften - offentlig, uthängd eller skyddad?\" är kanske något att gå efter. http://www.nisus.se/archive/pul_ny.html
\"För det andra är det bara svenskan som har uttrycket allmän handling. I (EU-)direktivets engelska version står det \"public access to official documents\", och franskan har \"documents adminstratifs\". När uttrycket översätts, översätts det samtidigt till en helt annan rättslig tradition, där sekretess är grundregeln, inte offentlighet.\"
Peer comment(s):
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Rosica Dimitrova
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Hon tackar.
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lena blondel
: allman handling kan vara "offentlig" eller "hemlig".http://www.forsakringskassan.se/omfk/offentlig/allm_handl/?p...
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YankeeDude
: Helt rätt.
För att en handling skall vara offentlig (public document) krävs (1) att den är en allmän handling och (2) att den inte är sekretessbelagd. Till exempel är en sjukhusjournal en allmän handling men icke en offentlig handling.
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