Workshop on Interpretation and Translation

Organised by the Legal Affairs Bureau, and starting tomorrow, October 5, at 3 pm, in the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 10th floor) is a Workshop on the Contribution for Macau of the European Commission Experience on the Fields of Interpretation and Translation. As part of the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, this training course will have as speakers two experts from the European Commission on the fields of interpretation and translation and will take place daily, until Friday, October 7, between 3 and 6 pm The first day will be on the “Multilingual Experience in the European Union: Management of Translations in the European Commission” having as speaker Maria Cristina de Preter, Head of Unit PT-1 (Legal Affairs, Economic and Financial, Competition) of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission. The second day will be on “Quality Interpretation Towards Multilingual Communication” and will be conducted by Pedro Elston, Principal Interpreter of the Portuguese Unit of the Directorate-General for Interpretation of the European Commission. The third day will be left for debate. The workshop will be conducted in Portuguese and targets the interpreters-translators of the MSAR public departments, having 28 local participants registered to attend. The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, in which this workshop is integrated, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System”. Currently in its fourth year of execution, the Co-operation Programme will proceed until February 2007. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao. The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organisation of the pertaining activities ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.