Translation of "micro à main " (French → English) :

When you speak, please hold the microphone and speak directly into it. As there are not many of them, don't hesitate to move closer to the one you will be using.

small companies that generate stable employment and contribute to continuous training for workers with help from the JEREMIE initiative; the full involvement of the social partners in all company-related issues, in particular credit; more information on new Community programmes, in particular those targeting micro and small companies; support for instruments other than subsidies, such as loans, subordinated debt guarantees, convertible instruments and venture capital; strengthening the infrastructure needed to facilitate access to funding; initiatives for specific categories (young entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs, and disadvantag ...[+++]ed groups, including ethnic minorities); and the creation of a JEREMIE focal point at the Commission.

An operator shall not operate an aeroplane on which a flight crew of more than one is required unless it is equipped with a flight crew interphone system, including headsets and microphones, not of a handheld type, for use by all members of the flight crew.

In order to enhance the productivity of labour and expand the demand for labour the following could be pursued: - ensure that the macro-economic policies support broad based economic growth and widespread distribution of its benefits; - promote equitable access to assets such as skills, land, credit, capital and technology, to enhance work opportunities in rural and urban areas and the productivity of work, in particular for women ; - support the formulation and implementation by partner countries - as part of partners' overall strategy to reduce poverty - of consistent overall employment strategies on the basis of a commitment to accelerate the increase in productive employment in the private sector with the aim of ...[+++]having an economic policy which should be both job and productivity-driven ; - support the development of an environment favourable to small enterprises and micro-enterprises, including those in the informal sector through, inter alia, the provision of appropriate and efficient credit facilities, notably micro- credit; - support improvements in quality/relevance and the expansion of education and training systems including lifelong learning; no sustainable increases in employment and productivity can be achieved without raising the qualifications and responsiveness of human resources to economic change; - where appropriate, promote labour-intensiveness of investment in economic and social infrastructures that use local resources and provide for their effective integration into the local socio-economic context. c) Health Under the "Horizon 2000" initiative, the Council has identified health as a major priority of development aid and of coordination between the Community and Member States.

The one hiccup that we ran into was the fact that we only had one microphone that was working and could be passed around—of course, Murphy's Law would follow an O'Brien clerk—and we figured we'd go with that and they would just pass it around.

The Vice-Chair (Ms. Paddy Torsney): Unfortunately, our recorders don't record hands, so they'll have to actually give a yes or no into the microphone.