The ESCO terminological guidelines aim at providing rules on the ESCO terminology to be applied by linguistic and terminological experts. The document will serve as common approach towards the understanding of concepts, the creation of preferred and non-preferred terms, and their formulation and spelling within the ESCO pillars: occupations, and skills/competences.

The document is composed by 5 sub-sections with general orthographic rules for all ESCO languages. Examples are mainly given in English as it is the reference language for ESCO.

The terminological guidelines are a “work in progress” document. They will be updated, based on decisions taken by the ESCO Secretariat, the ESCO Maintenance Committee, as well as on feedback received from methodological, semantic, and national experts, terminologists and translators.