Translation of "perte de temps volontaire " (French → English) :

Definition: A condition, so far found only in girls, in which apparently normal early development is followed by partial or complete loss of speech and of skills in locomotion and use of hands, together with deceleration in head growth, usually with an onset between seven and 24 months of age. Loss of purposive hand movements, hand-wringing stereotypies, and hyperventilation are characteristic. Social and play development are arrested but social interest tends to be maintained. Trunk ataxia and apraxia start to develop by age four years and choreoathetoid movements frequently follow. Severe mental retardation almost invariably results.

lost time accident | lost-time accident | ranking injury

lost-time accident [ time-loss injury ]

Definition: A disorder in which the child, having previously made normal progress in language development, loses both receptive and expressive language skills but retains general intelligence; the onset of the disorder is accompanied by paroxysmal abnormalities on the EEG, and in the majority of cases also by epileptic seizures. Usually the onset is between the ages of three and seven years, with skills being lost over days or weeks. The temporal association between the onset of seizures and loss of language is variable, with one preceding the other (either way round) by a few months to two years. An inflammatory encephalitic process ha ...[+++]s been suggested as a possible cause of this disorder. About two-thirds of patients are left with a more or less severe receptive language deficit.

Definition: Repeated, voluntary or involuntary passage of faeces, usually of normal or near-normal consistency, in places not appropriate for that purpose in the individual's own sociocultural setting. The condition may represent an abnormal continuation of normal infantile incontinence, it may involve a loss of continence following the acquisition of bowel control, or it may involve the deliberate deposition of faeces in inappropriate places in spite of normal physiological bowel control. The condition may occur as a monosymptomatic disorder, or it may form part of a wide ...[+++]r disorder, especially an emotional disorder (F93.-) or a conduct disorder (F91.-). | Functional encopresis Incontinence of faeces of nonorganic origin Psychogenic encopresis

In these circumstances, it is not surprising that the time needed for tendering and contracting works can increase to 15 months (up to 6 months for services plus up to 9 months for works) from the date of the decision, not taking into account the time needed to draft or review the tender documents nor the time-lag -however reduced it may be- between the ISPA decision and the counter signature by the candidate country nor, in the event, of any time lost by a cancellation of the procurement procedure or of one of its components.

Losses due to congestion are estimated to be in the region of 0.5 % of GDP, the delay in investment in transport TENs cost the economy at least EUR8 billion each year measured in terms of cost of lost time and account for 2% of transport emissions. [5]

Member States such as Poland, the Netherlands or Germany would face more than €500 million of additional costs for the road transport of traded goods; Spain or the Czech Republic would see their businesses paying more than €200 million in additional costs; Border controls would cost the 1.7 million cross-border workers, or the firms that employ them, between €2.5 and €4.5 billion in terms of time lost; At least 13 million tourist nights could be lost, with a total cost of €1.2 billion; At least €1.1 billion of administrative costs would have to be paid by governments due to the need for increased staff for border controls.

In addition to all of this, the administrative processes around either voluntary cooperation or compensation will involve some expense and lost time.