Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include sel ...[+++]f-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptoms, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

Definition: The common themes that are shared by dissociative or conversion disorders are a partial or complete loss of the normal integration between memories of the past, awareness of identity and immediate sensations, and control of bodily movements. All types of dissociative disorders tend to remit after a few weeks or months, particularly if their onset is associated with a traumatic life event. More chronic disorders, particularly paralyses and anaesthesias, may develop if the onset is associated with insoluble problems or interpersonal difficulties. These disorders have previously been classified as various types of conversion hysteria . They are presumed to be psychogenic in origin, being associated closely in time with traumatic ev ...[+++]ents, insoluble and intolerable problems, or disturbed relationships. The symptoms often represent the patient's concept of how a physical illness would be manifest. Medical examination and investigation do not reveal the presence of any known physical or neurological disorder. In addition, there is evidence that the loss of function is an expression of emotional conflicts or needs. The symptoms may develop in close relationship to psychological stress, and often appear suddenly. Only disorders of physical functions normally under voluntary control and loss of sensations are included here. Disorders involving pain and other complex physical sensations mediated by the autonomic nervous system are classified under somatization disorder (F45.0). The possibility of the later appearance of serious physical or psychiatric disorders should always be kept in mind. | conversion:hysteria | reaction | hysteria hysterical psychosis

Civil Service Tribunal [ European Civil Service Tribunal | European Union Civil Service Tribunal ]

Definition: A residual category for disorders in which there is some admixture of specific developmental disorders of speech and language, of scholastic skills, and of motor function, but in which none predominates sufficiently to constitute the prime diagnosis. This mixed category should be used only when there is a major overlap between each of these specific developmental disorders. The disorders are usually, but not always, associated with some degree of general impairment of cognitive functions. Thus, the category should be used when there are dysfunctions meeting the criteria for two or more of F80.-, F81.- and F82.

assistant [ assistants' function group | AST function group ]

administrator [ AD function group | administrators' function group | EC language service | EC staff in category LA ]

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civil service administrator | public service director | public administration manager | public body administrator

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It was agreed, - That pursuant to Standing Order 108(1)(a), a subcommittee on Public Service Renewal co-chaired by Roy Cullen and Paul Forseth be established to inquire into all matters relating to the renewal of the Public Service, including recent and current initiatives, the role and effectiveness of departments and agencies with responsibilities relating to the public service, and related legislation; and - That the Subcommittee be composed of 5 members or associate members of the Committee: 3 government members and 2 members representing the opposition parties to be named after the usual consultations ...[+++] with the Whips and filed with the Clerk and that the Subcommittee be empowered to send for persons, papers and records, to receive evidence, to sit during a time when the Standing Committee is not sitting, unless otherwise authorized by the Committee, to sit when the Committee is sitting outside Parliamentary Precinct and to sit during periods when the House stands adjourned, to print from time to time such papers as may be ordered by it and to authorize the Chair to hold meetings to receive evidence when a quorum is not present provided that at least 2 members are present including the opposition; that the Subcommittee be empowered to retain the services of research officers from the Library of Parliament and; that the Subcommittee be empowered to retain professional services as may be required.

In the present case, as the job description contained in the vacancy notice corresponded to administrative and advisory functions, functions which, according to Article 5(2) of the Staff Regulations, are performed by staff in function group AD from grade AD 5 upwards, it was right that the vacancy notice provided that officials applying for the post in question should be in one of the grades AD 5 to AD 14 and that the successful candidate would be appointed in his existing grade.

Since the amendment of the Staff Regulations on 1 May 2004, apart from grades AD 15 and AD 16, which are reserved for the posts of Director and/or Director General, the Staff Regulations do not establish any correspondence between the functions performed and a particular grade, but allow grade and function to be separated (judgment in Bouillez and Others v Council, F‑53/08, EU:F:2010:37, paragraph 54) and, as a consequence, officials in function group AD have followed a linear career path, which can progress, through promotion, from g ...[+++]rade AD 5 to grade AD 14.

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, th ...[+++]at they may be performed by officials in different grades.