The project was launched in 1999 with the objective of creating a web-based interface for all EU terminology resources so as to make the information more easily available and ensure its standardisation throughout the EU institutions.
A public user interface was released for testing in early 2007 and was officially opened on 28 June 2007.
[1] A new version was released on 7 November 2018 following a full rebuild of the system with state-of-the-art technologies, the latest software development standards, best practices on usability and accessibility, and a new look and feel.
[2] IATE incorporated all of the existing terminology databases of the EU's translation services into one interinstitutional database containing approximately 1.4 million multilingual entries.
The IATE web site is administered by the EU Translation Centre in Luxembourg on behalf of the project partners.