LAB2004 (asker) Oct 6, 2013:

Hi Sebastiano and Paola. Thanks for your helpful comments. I was trying to get to grips with where the phraseology (and the grammar!) could have come from. I agree that to include the reference to the articles in English is somewhat superfluous.

Sebastiano Massimo Barbagallo Oct 6, 2013:

A doubtful preposition "articolato allo" is very infrequent, in Italian. Much more common is "articolato di" or "articolato dello/della" (see also Paola's post). Indeed, it means text/draft divided into articles *OF* something (a law, a statute, a contract...), and not *TO* something. In other words, it is almost certain that "allo Schema" is a plain mistake and should be read as "dello Schema". And it doesn't matter if some articles only were redrafted: on the whole, it is a "nuovo articolato" (= a new draft) anyway. I still believe that the title "Proposta di Nuovo Articolato Schema di Regolamento", to which your question refers, should be translated as *Proposal for New Draft Regulations*, or using "Redrafted Regulations", but without explicitly mentioning the concept of "divided into articles", which would render the translation unnecessarily cumbersome. (To be clear, the literal translation would be "Proposal for new draft regulations divided into articles").

LAB2004 (asker) Oct 6, 2013:

Hi everyone. Am wading through my lengthy document and have now also found this reference which helps clarify somewhat: ".Proposte di nuovo articolato allo Schema di Regolamento". So what I now take this to mean is, effectively, proposed redrafts of (various articles of) the Draft Regulations.

Sebastiano Massimo Barbagallo Oct 3, 2013:

@ Paola I was sure that someone would agree with me! :-)

Paola Battagliarini Oct 3, 2013:

I agree with Sebastiano, I think here "Articolato" is a noun (not an adjective) and it means "testo suddiviso in articoli": the phrase could read "Proposta di Nuovo Articolato [dello] Schema di Regolamento.

Sebastiano Massimo Barbagallo Oct 3, 2013:

@ Barend: Sorry but I don't understand Dutch... Anyway, I am sure the following links will be very useful, and I will leave you to draw your own conclusions:

https://www.google.it/#aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_rfai=&hl=it&q="i...

https://www.google.it/#aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_rfai=&hl=it&q="P...

@ LJardine: "la seconda che hai detto" :-)

Barend van Zadelhoff Oct 3, 2013:

newly articulated ? Ik ken geen Italiaans maar met jouw contextuele informatie lees ik dit als volgt:

Proposta di Nuovo Articolato Schema di Regolamento

Nieuw verwoorde/geformuleerde voorstellen voor conceptbepalingen

vergelijk het met het Engelse 'articulate' - (helder) verwoorden, onder woorden brengen