Translation of "écrou de la grande aiguille " (French → English) :

Large organisations: voestalpine VAE + Weichensysteme + HYTRONICS GmbH (Austria) apply a holistic life cycle approach to engineering and producing railway turnouts (points).

5. Expresses disappointment at the fact that, although a large number of infections occur due to the sharing of drug abuse needles, there are still no effective programmes in operation for providing clean needles to drug addicts in many countries, including Member States;

S. Whereas the effectiveness of data-mining is weakened by the 'needle in the haystack' problem of analysts having to filter through the huge quantity of available data; whereas the extent of 'digital tracks' left by law-abiding citizens is even greater than that of criminals and terrorists who make considerable efforts to conceal their identities; and whereas there are significant rates of 'false positives' whereby not only do wholly innocent people come under suspicion resulting in potential invasion of individual privacy but real suspects meanwhile remain unidentified;

I. whereas no proposal within the meaning of Article 39(2) of the Rules of Procedure is in preparation, more than 12 months following Parliament's request for legislative improvement, and whereas during that time, about one million additional needlestick injuries are likely to have been suffered by healthcare workers in the EU, many of which could have been avoided; whereas some of these injuries will lead to infection with potentially fatal blood-borne viruses and many more will cause healthcare workers and their families months of anguish of not knowing whether or not they have contracted a life threatening infection,

I. whereas there is no proposal within the meaning of Article 39(2) of its Rules of Procedure in preparation, more than 12 months following Parliament's request for legislative improvement, and whereas, during that time, about one million additional needlestick injuries are likely to have been suffered by healthcare workers in the EU, many of which could have been avoided; whereas some of these injuries will lead to infection with potentially fatal blood-borne viruses and many more will cause healthcare workers and their families months of anguish, while they do not know whether or not they have contracted a life-threatening infection,

I appreciate that some of the communities are remote or whatever, but in the Halton example, with a fairly large geographic area, not as large as Nunavut or something, they'd give needles to 100, knowing they would get those to 10 people, rather than necessarily saying, you only need 10, you get 10.