loss of earning capacity [ loss of ability to earn ]

(f) the degree of loss-of-earnings capacity for persons with similar impairments.

G. whereas there is a need to clean up, reconstruct and rehabilitate the disaster-stricken areas, to restore infrastructure and facilities in the fields of energy, water supply, sanitation and telecommunications as well as roads, bridges and housing, to re-establish those areas’ productive potential and the jobs that have been lost, and to adopt appropriate measures to compensate for the social costs inherent in the loss of jobs and of other sources of income,

6. Urges the Commission to support rehabilitation of the regions which have suffered heavy damage, restore the productive potential in affected areas, seek to relaunch job creation and take appropriate measures to compensate for the social costs inherent in the loss of jobs and other sources of income;

17. Emphasises that payments awarded to complainants should be compensatory and should not exceed the actual damage (damnum emergens) and losses ('lucrum cessans') suffered, in order to avoid unjust enrichment, and that the ability of the victim to mitigate the damage and losses may be taken into account; however in the case of cartels, suggeststhat first applicants cooperating with the competition authorities in leniency programmes should not be held jointly and severally liable with the other infringers, and that interest should be calculated from the date of the infringement;