Translation of "qui étaient jusqu'alors " (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.

Previously adverse trends have thus abated, economic conditions are improving and reform efforts are gaining momentum.

· When cross-compliance entered into force the GAEC standards, as such, were new at least to those farmers who had not, as beneficiaries of rural development agri-environmental measures or less-favoured area payments, previously to apply good farming practices.

13. One of the amendments introduced in the Merger Regulation in 1998 was the inclusion of certain joint ventures, which previously had been considered to fall outside the scope of the Regulation (so called full-function co-operative joint ventures "ffCJV's").

In 2008 Astra held a series of meetings with the Autonomous Communities to present its offer to broadcast digital television channels, which had hitherto been broadcasted via terrestrial platform.