To get some handle on this sorry business, here is an excerpt from the preface by Kevin Seasoltz OSB to Peter Jeffery's critique of Liturgiam Authenticam,
Translating Tradition.
On October 11, 1972, Cardinal Medina, Cardinal Ratzinger and six other members of the International Theological Commission wrote to Poper Paul VI to express their urgent concern that the unity and purity of the Catholic faith were being severely compromised by the inaccurate and theologically suspect translations of liturgical texts from Latin into the vernacular languages. They complained that the Congregation for Divine Worship was unwisely relying on local bishops' conferences to judge the quality of translated texts rather than examining them carefully in Rome.
Cardinal Medina was appointed prefect of the CDW in February 1998 and Liturgiam Authenticam appeared in March 2001. And we know what happened to Cardinal Ratzinger...
You can therefore expect little sympathy from the Pope or from the CDW. The 'Areas of Difficulty' document is the best that could have been hoped for to shame the CDW's interference.
However, here is a paragraph of the said Liturgicam Authenticam:
104. For the good of the faithful, the Holy See reserves to itself the right to prepare translations in any language, and to approve them for liturgical use.
Nevertheless, even if the Apostolic See, by means of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, may intervene from time to time out of necessity in the preparation of translations, it still belongs to the competent Conference of Bishops to approve their assumption into liturgical use within the boundaries of a given ecclesiastical territory, unless otherwise explicitly indicated in the decree of approbation of the translation promulgated by the Apostolic See. Afterwards, for the purpose of obtaining the recognitio of the Holy See, the Conference shall transmit the decree of approbation for its territory together with the text itself, in accordance with the norms of this Instruction and of the other requirements of the law.
The German bishops, faced with an unacceptable version of their Rite of Christian Funerals from the CDW, simply declined to implement it. Will our bishops have the chutzpah to do likewise? (Note that it belongs to the bishops, not ICEL, to decide.)
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Isn't English wonderful?
