Definition: States of subjective distress and emotional disturbance, usually interfering with social functioning and performance, arising in the period of adaptation to a significant life change or a stressful life event. The stressor may have affected the integrity of an individual's social network (bereavement, separation experiences) or the wider system of social supports and values (migration, refugee status), or represented a major developmental transition or crisis (going to school, becoming a parent, failure to attain a cherished personal goal, retirement). Individual predisposition or vulnerability plays an ...[+++]important role in the risk of occurrence and the shaping of the manifestations of adjustment disorders, but it is nevertheless assumed that the condition would not have arisen without the stressor. The manifestations vary and include depressed mood, anxiety or worry (or mixture of these), a feeling of inability to cope, plan ahead, or continue in the present situation, as well as some degree of disability in 9the performance of daily routine. Conduct disorders may be an associated feature, particularly in adolescents. The predominant feature may be a brief or prolonged depressive reaction, or a disturbance of other emotions and conduct. | Culture shock Grief reaction Hospitalism in children

supervisory import specialist

Definition: The schizophrenic disorders are characterized in general by fundamental and characteristic distortions of thinking and perception, and affects that are inappropriate or blunted. Clear consciousness and intellectual capacity are usually maintained although certain cognitive deficits may evolve in the course of time. The most important psychopathological phenomena include thought echo; thought insertion or withdrawal; thought broadcasting; delusional perception and delusions of control; influence or passivity; hallucinatory voices commenting or discussing the patient in the third person; thought disorders and negative sym ...[+++]ptoms. The course of schizophrenic disorders can be either continuous, or episodic with progressive or stable deficit, or there can be one or more episodes with complete or incomplete remission. The diagnosis of schizophrenia should not be made in the presence of extensive depressive or manic symptoms unless it is clear that schizophrenic symptoms antedate the affective disturbance. Nor should schizophrenia be diagnosed in the presence of overt brain disease or during states of drug intoxication or withdrawal. Similar disorders developing in the presence of epilepsy or other brain disease should be classified under F06.2, and those induced by psychoactive substances under F10-F19 with common fourth character .5.

high official | senior officer | senior official

European official [ EC basic post | EC staff | EU official | official of the EU | official of the European Union | staff of the EC ]

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former senior official

Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, imported

On 9 June 2000 a joint team of Italian officials and OLAF investigators discovered that 101 false import certificates had been presented in order to import fraudulently into the Community over 160,000 tons of bananas since March 1998.

As you know, back in the month of May, I think it was, our committee agreed that it would be important for this committee to meet with some of our counterparts and some important WTO officials in Europe in the fall.

Secondly, where they exercise their broad discretion in deciding on the correspondence between posts and grades, in the light of the importance of the duties assigned to the functions at issue and solely in the interest of the service, the EU institutions must take into account the fact that, under the Staff Regulations, identical or similar functions may be performed by persons in different grades, as is apparent from Annex I, Section A, to the Staff Regulations, which provides, in the case of most of the functions listed therein, that they may be performed by officials in d ...[+++]ifferent grades.

It should be noted in that regard that the rule that the post to which an official is assigned should correspond to his grade calls for a comparison between the functions performed by the official or other staff member and his grade in the hierarchy, regard being had to their nature, their importance and their scope (judgment in Michail v Commission, F‑100/09, EU:F:2011:132, paragraph 65).