Translation of "physique permanente susceptible " (French → English) :

Mr. Peter MacKay (Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough, PC): Mr. Speaker, fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effect, or FAS and FAE, are lifelong mental and physical defects that can occur in individuals whose mothers consume large amounts of alcohol during pregnancy.

This report rests upon the principle that all consumers are susceptible to becoming vulnerable consumers over the course of their lives, since vulnerability can result from endogenous as well as exogenous causes. The causes are endogenous when the consumer’s vulnerability is the result of temporary or permanent causes that are inherent to the consumer or his or her physical or mental situation (children, adolescents, seniors, the d ...[+++]isabled, etc.), and exogenous when the causes that make the consumer vulnerable are external: lack of knowledge of the language, lack of education (in general or specific to a sector of the market) or, simply, the need to use new technologies with which the consumer is not familiar.

High-intensity sounds such as those produced by active naval sonars have the potential to cause harmful physical damage to marine life, ranging from temporary hearing loss to permanent damage and even death.

For the purposes of paragraph 1, a person has a disability if he has a physical or mental impairment that is, or is likely to be, permanent.

The aim of the common framework of objectives is to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of Article 127 of the Treaty by pursuing a series of objectives such as: - improving the quality and innovation capacity of Member States' vocational training systems and arrangements; - developing the European dimension in vocational training and vocational guidance; - promoting lifelong training so as to encourage ongoing adaptation of skills to meet the needs of workers and undertakings, contribute to reducing unemployment and facilitate personal development; - giving all young people in the Community who so wish the possibility of one or, if possible, two or more years of initial vocational training after their full-time compulsory edu ...[+++]cation, leading to a vocational qualification recognized by the competent authorities in the Member State in which it is obtained; - encouraging specific vocational training measures for adults without adequate vocational qualifications, in particular adults without adequate education; - promoting equality of access to initial and continuing training for persons disadvantaged by socio-economic, geographical or ethnic factors or by physical or mental disabilities; special attention must be given to persons affected by several risk factors likely to cause their social and economic exclusion; - supporting vocational training policies in such a way that all workers in the Community have access to continuing vocational training throughout their working life without any discrimination; - promoting equality of opportunity as regards access for men and women to vocational training and their effective participation therein, in particular so as to open up new areas of work to them and encourage them to return to work after a career break; - supporting activities aimed at developing linguistic skills as part of vocational training measures; - promoting the development of vocational guidance facilities with a view to providing every in ...