| ACP |
African,
Caribbean and the Pacific countries, parties to the Lomé Convention |
| AP |
Accession
Partnership |
| ASEAN |
Association of South East Asian Nations |
| BEAC |
Barents Euro-Arctic Council |
| CAP |
Common
agricultural policy |
| CBSS |
Council of the Baltic Sea States |
| CCT |
Common customs tariff |
| CECs |
Central
European countries |
| Cedefop |
European
Centre for the Development of Vocational Training |
| CEECs |
Central
and Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) |
| CEEP |
European Centre for Public Enterprise |
| CEN |
European Committee for Standardization |
| Cenelec |
European
Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization |
| CERN |
European Organization for Nuclear Research |
| CFP |
Common fisheries policy |
| CFSP |
Common Foreign and Security Policy |
| CJTF |
Combined Joint Task Forces |
| CMEA |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
| Comett |
Community
programme in education and training for technology |
| COPA |
Committee of Agricultural Organizations in the
European Community |
| COPO |
Political Committee (Comité politique) |
| COR |
Committee
of the Regions |
| Coreper |
Committee of the permanent representatives
(Comité des représentants permanents) |
| COSAC |
Conference of European Affairs Committee |
| COST |
European
Cooperation on Scientific and Technical Research |
| Crest |
Scientific and Technical Research Committee
(Comité de la recherche scientifique et technique) |
| CSF |
Community support framework |
| DG |
Directorate-General |
| EAEC |
European Atomic Energy Community, Euratom |
| EAGGF |
European
Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund |
| EAPC |
Euro-Atlantic
Partnership Council |
| EBRD |
European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| EC |
European Community, European Communities |
| ECB |
European Central Bank |
| ECHO |
European Community Humanitarian Office |
| ECHR |
European Convention on Human Rights |
| ECIP |
European
Community Investment Partners programme |
| ECJ |
Court of Justice of the European Communities
(European Court of Justice) |
| ECMF |
European Monetary Cooperation Fund |
| ECOFIN |
Council of
Ministers for Economic and Financial Affairs |
| ECSC |
European Coal and Steel Community |
| ECU |
European Currency Unit |
| EDD |
Europe of Democracies and Diversities |
| EDF |
European Development Fund |
| EEA |
European Economic Area |
| EEC |
European Economic Community |
| EFA |
European Free Alliance |
| EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
| EIB |
European Investment Bank |
| EIC |
Euro-Info Centres |
| ELDR |
European
Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party |
| EMCF |
European Monetary Cooperation Fund |
| EMI |
European Monetary Institute |
| EMS |
European Monetary System |
| EMU |
Economic and Monetary Union |
| Envireg |
Programme for regional environment measures |
| EP |
European Parliament |
| EPC |
European
political cooperation, European Political Community |
| EPP |
European People's Party |
| Erasmus |
European Community action scheme for the mobility of
university students |
| ERDF |
European Regional Development Fund |
| ERM |
Exchange Rate Mechanism |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ESC |
Economic and Social Committee |
| ESCB |
European System of Central Banks |
| ESF |
European Social Fund |
| ESDI |
European Security and Defense Identity |
| Esprit |
European strategic programme for research and
development in information technologies |
| ETUC |
European Trade Union Confederation |
| EU |
European Union |
| EUA |
European unit of account |
| Euratom |
European Atomic Energy Community, EAEC |
| Eureka |
European Research Coordination Agency |
| Euro |
European single currency |
| Euro-11 |
Euro-11 Council |
| Europol |
European Police Office |
| Eurostat |
Statistical Office of the European Union |
| FIFG |
Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance |
| GAC |
General Affairs Council |
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GREENS |
Greens |
| GUE/NGL |
European United Left – Nordic
Green Left |
| Gymnich |
Informal meeting of Foreign Ministers |
| IGC |
Intergovernmental Conference |
| Interreg |
Community initiative for border areas |
| IST |
Information Society Technologies |
| JET |
Joint
European Torus, research project on controlled thermonuclear fusion |
| JHA |
Justice and home affairs |
| JRC |
Joint Research Centre |
| Leonardo |
Reshaped PETRA programme |
| Lingua |
Programme to promote training in foreign languages |
| Lomé |
Lomé
Convention, multilateral trade and development agreements between the EU and the ACP
countries |
| MEDIA |
Measures to encourage the development of the
audiovisual production industry |
| MEP |
Member of the European Parliament |
| MISEP |
Mutual
Information System on Employment Policies |
| Missoc |
Missoc Programme |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NCI |
New Community Instrument (borrowing and lending
facility to promote investment) |
| NET |
Next European Torus (nuclear fusion project) |
| NGL |
Nordic Green Left |
| NIS |
New
Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) |
| OCT |
Overseas
Countries and Territories |
| OECD |
Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OEEC |
Organisation
for European Economic Cooperation |
| OSCE |
Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| PCA |
Partnership
and Cooperation Agreement (with the NIS) |
| PES |
Party of European Socialists |
| Phare |
Phare programme (Poland and Hungary: aid for economic
restructuring) |
| QMV |
Qualified majority voting |
| RACE |
Research and development in advanced communications
technologies for Europe |
| SCA |
Special Committee on Agriculture |
| SEA |
Single European Act |
| SEM |
Single European market |
| SIS |
Schengen information system |
| SME |
Small and medium-sized enterprises |
| Socrates |
Reshaped Erasmus programme |
| Sprint |
Strategic
programme for innovation and technology transfer |
| Tacis |
Technical
assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States and Georgia |
| TAIEX |
Technical
Assistance Information Exchange Office |
| TARIC |
Integrated
customs tariff of the European Communities |
| Tempus |
Trans-European
mobility scheme for university studies |
| TEN |
Trans-European Networks |
| TEU |
Treaty on European Union |
| UCLAF |
European
Commission's fraud prevention task force |
| UEN |
Union for
a Europe of Nations |
| UNICE |
Union of
Industries of the European Community |
| WEU |
Western European Union |
| WTO |
World Trade Organization |
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