French term
Norway
services autorisés par nature
I'm translating a call for tenders from French (FR) to English (UK) and am having problems with the term above. It appears three times in the section about the approach covering non-audit tasks. Please see below for context
Définition d’une liste de services autorisés par nature et validée par le Comité des Comptes de [x] et par le Comité d’Audit de [y];
Approbation préalable du Comité des Comptes de [x] pour les autres services non interdits, mais ne figurant pas dans la liste des services autorisés par nature;
De vérifier que les critères d’approbation sont remplis pour les services autorisés par nature : vérification de la nature de la prestation, recueil de l’analyse d’indépendance des auditeurs centraux, respect des ratios…
Could anyone help please? Thanks in advance!
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Sensible solutions
Native in: English (Variant: Wessexois) 
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
services (automatically) pre-authorised because of their type
Admittedly a bit of an amalgam of two previous answers but I think this is clear
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Daryo
: that's my understanding also - this being so far only "the most plausible" - being sure would be better, but no additional context on the horizon ...
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Francois Boye
: You provide no explanation for your translation, Which types are you talking about?//Do you know what a tautological response is?
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The types that are pre-authorised
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Conor McAuley
: More context is not necessarily required, the situation is reasonably clear. Also I would say "authorised" not "pre-authorised".
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Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
services (pre-) cleared by category
How the services contrast in the next para. with the prestation (act of provision or supply of the non-auditing service) and that does not seem to collocate 'in nature' with '(non-)autorisée) should also be addressed: 'nature de la prestation'.
Otherwise, beware of 'categoric' answers wiith no references.
Category of Services means the classification of the services offered by a provider of last resort of basic service as either essential, discretionary, competitive or deregulated.
permitted/permissible [nonaudit] services
I haven't found any refs indicating this is a trade term, so unsure how widespread it is. But it does appear at the end of this Les Echos article https://archives.lesechos.fr/archives/cercle/2013/07/04/cerc...
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Note added at 13 hrs (2022-07-04 13:46:06 GMT)
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Some additional links that might help:
https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2016/08/eu-audit-refor...
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/global-regulatory-affairs/au...
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/permitted-non-audit-se...
https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/company-repo...
Draw up a list of permitted nonaudit services approved by X's Accounts Comittee and Y's Audit Committee.
Obtain the prior approval of X's Audit Committee for services that are not prohibited but that are not on the list of permissible nonaudit services.
http://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2014/06/fact-sheet2-restrictions-non-audit.html
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/assets/gra-non-audit-services.pdf
United States
An economic geek with social skills
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
audit services pre-authoris(z)ed by their very nature/by definition
The so-called 'services autorisés par nature' are ordered and authoris(z)ed by the tender issuer. The reason it is so is self-evident: the ' services autorisés par nature'
as defined above are the same as the ones in the purview of auditors.
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AllegroTrans
: The term doesn't include "audit", // "Audit" is NOT in the term - read it again and anyway, asker says it's about "non-audit" tasks//just stand back from your bias and read it all again please
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services autorisés par nature : vérification de la nature de la prestation, recueil de l’analyse d’indépendance des auditeurs centraux, respect des ratios…//Do you understand what the definition above means?
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Discussion
Any indication in which sense these services are "authorised" and by who?
So far it sounds to me that some of the "services" are considered to be "authorised" by the simple fact of what kind/type of services they are.
An example: "stock inventory/audit" by its nature / par nature (= de part sa ...) would be a kind of "service" that would be included in an overall audit of a company.