The DORA Register of Information should be translated with a structure-aware platform that renders free-text fields — contract descriptions, function names, service descriptions — into the required language while leaving identifiers, LEIs, taxonomy codes, and the xBRL-CSV structure completely untouched. The Register is a machine-readable data model of every ICT third-party arrangement, spanning 15 inter-linked templates and 60+ mandatory fields across six layers, and supervisory authorities ingest it as a strict xBRL-CSV package. A translation that alters a single structural field can invalidate the whole submission.
Bluente is an AI-powered document translation platform used by 30,000+ professionals to translate files in 120+ languages while preserving original formatting. This article explains what the Register of Information is, which fields actually need translating, and how to localize it for group and home-authority reporting without breaking the file supervisors will validate.
What Is the DORA Register of Information?
The Register of Information is a machine-readable register of all contractual arrangements for ICT services provided by third parties, required under the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). Implementing Technical Standard (EU) 2024/2956 defines 15 inter-linked templates across six layers — entity, provider, contractual arrangement, ICT service, function or asset, and sub-outsourcing — forming a relational data model where a change in one table propagates expectations to the others.
It is granular by design. The Register captures entity identification (LEI, country, type), every direct ICT provider and its critical-provider status, one record per contract with governing law and criticality flags, prior-year and estimated cost per arrangement, service lines decomposed using the ITS taxonomy, and material sub-outsourcing. Submissions must arrive as a complete xBRL-CSV package: a JSON metadata file plus one CSV per template using the ESA taxonomy naming convention. This is a dataset, not a document — and that changes how it must be translated.
Which Fields in the Register Actually Need Translation?
Only the free-text descriptive fields need translation — function names, service descriptions, and contract or arrangement notes — while identifiers and coded fields must stay exactly as they are. LEIs, country codes, taxonomy service-type codes, criticality flags, dates, and monetary values are structural. Translating them does not just lose meaning; it breaks the relational links between templates and can fail supervisory validation outright.
That distinction is the entire challenge. A financial entity operating cross-border may need a version of the Register readable by a home-country supervisor, a group risk function, or a local team in their working language — but the submitted file must preserve every identifier and code. The right approach translates the human-readable layer for internal review and communication while treating the machine-readable scaffolding as untouchable. A tool that cannot tell a description field from a taxonomy code should never touch this file.
Why Do General Translation Tools Break the Register?
General-purpose tools break the Register because they treat a CSV as flat text and translate every cell, including the codes and identifiers that hold the data model together. Flatten a 15-template xBRL-CSV package into a translation stream and you get translated LEIs, localized taxonomy codes, altered flags, and severed cross-references between the entity, provider, and contract layers. The file may look translated, but it will not validate — and a rejected DORA submission is a regulatory problem, not a cosmetic one.
Bluente's structure-aware engine handles the Register as the relational dataset it is. It identifies the descriptive fields that carry human-readable meaning and translates only those, reflowing them back into the exact CSV and column structure so identifiers, codes, and inter-template references survive intact. Across XLSX and CSV working files, most translations finish in under two minutes, so a compliance team can produce a readable localized copy without hand-editing spreadsheets cell by cell.
How Do You Keep DORA Terminology Consistent Across the Register?
You keep it consistent by locking DORA-specific terms — "critical or important function," "ICT service," "sub-outsourcing," provider types — to a custom glossary so they render identically across all 15 templates and across every reporting cycle. Because the templates are inter-linked, a function or service described one way in the contract layer and another way in the service-line layer creates exactly the kind of inconsistency supervisors and internal auditors flag. A glossary fixes the vocabulary once and enforces it everywhere.
Bluente's glossary is built for compliance teams, not linguists: you define how each regulatory term should translate and the engine applies it across the whole package and every subsequent submission. Combined with translation trained on large volumes of regulatory and contractual language, this gives risk and compliance functions a localized Register they can review and circulate with confidence — while the authoritative xBRL-CSV submission remains untouched in its original coded form.
Is It Secure to Translate the Register of Information?
Yes, with an enterprise-grade platform — and security is non-negotiable here because the Register maps a financial entity's entire ICT third-party dependency, which is precisely the concentration data DORA exists to protect. Bluente runs with zero data retention, automatic deletion within 24 hours, and end-to-end encryption, and is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliant. The Register is never retained or used to train AI models.
That security posture is also part of DORA good practice: the same third-party risk discipline the Register documents should apply to the tools that handle it. A translation platform that deletes the file within 24 hours, encrypts it end to end, and can sign your standard NDA fits the control environment financial entities are already building — rather than becoming a new, unvetted data-egress point.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do I have to translate the DORA Register of Information? The authoritative submission stays in its defined structure, but cross-border groups often need a readable localized copy for home-authority supervisors, group risk, or local teams. Translate only the free-text descriptive fields; leave identifiers, codes, and the xBRL-CSV structure untouched.
Q: Which fields must never be translated? LEIs, country and taxonomy codes, criticality and provider-type flags, dates, and monetary values. These are structural and must stay exactly as submitted, or the relational links between templates break.
Q: Will translation break the xBRL-CSV package? Not with a structure-aware tool. Bluente translates descriptive fields and reflows them into the exact CSV and column structure, preserving identifiers, codes, and inter-template references so the file stays valid.
Q: How does Bluente keep DORA terms consistent across 15 templates? Through a custom glossary that locks regulatory terms — "critical or important function," "ICT service," "sub-outsourcing" — so they render identically across every template and reporting cycle.
Q: Is it secure to translate ICT third-party risk data? Yes. Bluente offers zero data retention, automatic deletion within 24 hours, end-to-end encryption, and SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliance, so the Register is never retained or used to train models.
Q: What file formats does Bluente handle for the Register? XLSX and CSV working files, alongside PDF and DOCX for accompanying policies and contracts — 120+ languages, most files in under two minutes.
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