The paper analyses the situation of legal and business translation from and into Galician. For such purposes, after a brief introduction, the author suggests two textual classifications, one for legal texts and one for business texts, which can be used as a framework to classify the types of texts selected for translation from and into Galician. The practical part of the paper begins with a description of the legal status of the Galician language at the different levels of the Administration, after which the author focus on the particular position of legal and business translation. The paper is closed with some conclusions about the translation planning policies in Galicia.