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AAP

African Action Plan

AAU

Assigned Amount Units

ACER

Australian Council for Educational Research

ACE

American Council on Education

ACLD

Arbitration of Company Law Disputes

ACN

Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

ACU

Association of Commonwealth Universities

ADB

Asian Development Bank

ADR

Alternative Dispute Resolution

AEGL

Acute Exposure Guideline Levels

AEI

Agri-Environmental Indicators

AEN

African Enterprise Network

AEO

African Economic Outlook

AFA

Activities of Foreign Affiliates

AFDB

African Development Bank

AGR

Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (now Trade and Agriculture Directorate)

AKS

Agricultural Knowledge Systems

APEC

Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation

APF

Africa Partnership Forum

APRM

African Peer Review Mechanism

ASEAN

Association of South-East Asian Nations

AUCC

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada

AU

Africain Union

B2B

Business-to-Business

B2C

Business-to-Consumer

BAFTA

Baltic Free-Trade Agreement

BERD

Business Expenditure on Research and Development

BIAC

Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD

BOP

Balance of Payments

BRC

Biological Resource Centres

BRICS

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

BRIC

Brazil, Russia, India and China

BRIICS

Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa

BSTS

Basic Science and Technology Statistics (now Research and Development Statistics)

BTD

Bilateral Trade Database

C2C

Consumer to Consumer

CARAT

Chemical Accident Risk Assessment Thesaurus (database)

CBA

Cost-Benefit Analysis

CBD

Convention on Biological Diversity

CBSS

Council of Baltic Sea States

CCET

Centre for Co-operation with the Economies in Transition (now Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members - CCNM)

CCF

Common-Cause-Failure (NEA)

CCNM

Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members

CCP

Committee on Consumer Policy

CDH

Careers of Doctorate Holders

CDI

Centre for Documentation and Information

CDM

Clean Development Mechanism

CEA

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

CEC

North American Commision for Environment Co-operation

CEDEFOP

European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training

CEEC

Central and Eastern European Countries

CEFTA

Central European Free-Trade Agreement

CEMAC

Central African Economic Community and Monetary Union (Cameroon, Centrafrica, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon)

CEPES

European Centre for Higher Education (Unesco)

CERI

Centre for Educational Reasearch and Innovation

CER

Certified Emission Reductions

CFA

Committee on Fiscal Affairs

CGE

Computable General Equilibrium (model)

CHEM

Chemicals Committee

CIBE

Committee for Industry and Business Environment

CIB

International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (see PEB - Programme on Educational Building)

CILSS

Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

CIME

Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (now Investment Committee)

CIRR

Commercial Interest Reference Rates

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

CITES

Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

CLI

Composite Leading Indicators

CLP

Competition Law and Policy

CMF

Committee on Financial Markets

CMIT

Committee on Capital Movements and Invisible Transactions (now Investment Committee)

CNG

Compressed Natural Gas

CNRA

Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (NEA)

COE

Council of Europe

COG

Centres of Government (network)

COMESA

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

COMP

Competition Committee

COP

Conference of the Parties

CPAC

Committee on Public Affairs and Communications

CPDC NETWORK

DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation

CPI

Consumer Price Indices

CPP

Chemical Product Policy

CPU

Conference of University Presidents

CRII

Caribbean Rim Investment Initiative

CRPPH

Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (NEA)

CRP

Co-operative Research Programme: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems

CRS

Creditor Reporting System

CSD

United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development

CSE

Consumer Support Estimate (indicator used as of 1999 at the OECD)
Consumer Subsidy Equivalent (indicator used until 1998 at the OECD)

CSNI

Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (NEA)

CSO

Civil Society Organisation

CSTP

Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy

CTPA

Centre for Tax Policy and Administration

DAC

Development Assistance Committee

DAE

Dynamic Asian Economies

DAF

Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs

DCD

Development Co-operation Directorate

DDA

Doha Development Agenda

DDR

Differentiated Discount Rates

DEREC

DAC Evaluation Resource Centre

DESECO

Definition and Selection of Competencies

DEV

Development Centre

DICE

Dynamic Integrated Climate Economy (model)

DNME

Dynamic Non-Member Economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Thailand)

DNS

Domain Name System

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

EAA

Economic Accounts for Agriculture

EAC

East African Community

EAEN

East African Enterprise Network

EAG

Education at a Glance

EAP

Environmental Action Programme

EBIP

Electronic Commerce Business Impacts Project

ECA

Export Credit Agencies

ECEC

Early Childhood Education and Care

ECG

Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (Export Credit Group)

ECH

Trade Directorate (now TAD for Trade and Agriculture Directorate)

ECMT

European Conference of Ministers of Transport (now International Transport Forum)

ECOLOC

Managing the economy locally in West Africa (launched jointly by the Sahel and West Africa Club and the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP)

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States

ECO

Economics Department

ECTSG

Electronic Commerce Tax Study Group

ECTS

European Credit Transfer System

EC

European Commission

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

EDRC

Economic and Development Review Committee

EDTA

Endocrine Disrupter Testing and Assessment

EDU

Directorate for Education

EEA

European Environment Agency

EEA

European Economic Area (EU + Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway)

EEB

European Environmental Bureau

EECCA

Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

EFTA

European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland)

EHS

Environment, Health and Safety

EIA

Environmental Impact Assessment

EIP

Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme

EI

Education International

ELSAC

Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee

ELS

Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

EMEF

Emerging Market Economy Forum

EMO

Employment Outlook

EMS

Environmental Management System

ENSI

Environment and School Initiatives

ENVIRONET

Network on Environment and Development Co-operation

ENV

Environment Directorate

EO

Economic Outlook

EPA

Education Policy Analysis

EPC

Economic Policy Committee

EPOC

OECD Environment Policy Committee

EPR

Environmental Performance Reviews

EPR

Extended Producer Responsibility

ERC

External Relations Committee

ERU

Emission Reduction Units

ESF

European Social Fund

ESM

Environmentally Sound Management of Waste

ETE

Emerging and Transition Economies

ETUCE

European Trade Union Committee for Education

EUA

European University Association

EUROSTAT

Statistical Office of the European Communities

EU

European Union

EXICHEM

Existing Chemicals Pointer Database

FAIR

Forum for Asian Insolvency Reform

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FATF

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering

FATS

Foreign Affiliates Trading Services (database)

FDI

Foreign Direct Investment

FED

Forum for Enterprise Development

FFD

Financing for Development

FMT

Financial Market Trends

FSC

Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (NEA)

FSF

Financial Stability Forum

FSG

Fragile States Group

FSU

Former Soviet Union

FTE

Full Time Equivalent

FYROM

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

G8

Group of eight leading industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and observer status of the European Union)

GATS

General Agreement on Trade in Services

GATT

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GBDE

Gobal Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GEEPI

Group on Economic and Environmental Policy Integration

GENDERNET

Network on Gender Equality

GEP

Group on Environmental Performance

GFC

OECD Global Forum on Competition

GFII

OECD Global Forum on International Investment

GFSD

OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development

GHG

Greenhouse Gases

GHS

Globally Harmonised Classification System for Chemicals

GII

Global Information Infrastructure

GIS

Global Information Society

GLP

Good Laboratory Practice

GMO

Genetically Modified Organisms

GNI

Gross National Income

GNP

Gross National Product

GOVNET

DAC Network on Good Governance and Capacity Development

GOV

Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development

GPP

Green Public Procurement

GREEN

General Equilibrium Environmental Model

GSF

Global Science Forum

GSSE

General Services Support Estimate

GST

Goods and Services Tax

HBGRD

Human Biobanks and Genetic Research Databases

HDI

Human Development Index

HEFCE

Higher Education Funding Council for England

HEI

Higher Education Institution

HE

Higher Education

HIPC

Highly Indebted Poor Countries

HPI

Human Poverty Index

HPV

High Production Volume (Chemicals)

HRM

Human Resource Management

HST

Harmonized Sales Tax

HS

Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System

HTA

Health Technology Assessment

IACC

International Anti-Corruption Conference

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IALS

International Adult Literacy Survey

IANB

Inter-Agency Network for Safety on Biotechnology

IAT

Intra-African Trade

IAU

International Association of Universities

ICCP

Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy

ICDE

International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange (NEA)

ICGB

Internal Co-operation Group for Biotechnology

ICHA

International Classification for Health Accounts

ICT

Information and Communication Technologies

IC

Insurance Committee

IDG

International Development Goal

IDS

International Development Statistics

IEA

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement

IEA

International Energy Agency

IET

International Emissions Trading

IFCS

Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety

IFED

Investment, Finance and Enterprise Development

IFP

International Futures Programme

IGO

Intergovernmental Organizations

IGSC

Integration Group for the Safety Case (NEA)

IIS

Indicators of Industry and Services

ILA

Individual Learning Account

ILO

International Labour Organization

IMHE

OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education

INES

OECD Indicators of National Education Systems

INPRS

International Network of Pensions Regulators and Supervisors

INTRASTAT

Statistics on Intra-Community Trade

INVESTMENT COMPACT

South East Europe Compact for Reform, Investment, Integrity and Growth

IOHE

Inter-American Organization for Higher Education

IOMC

Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals

IOM

International Organization for Migration

IOPS

International Organisation for Pension Surpervisors

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPCS

International Programme on Chemical Safety

IPM

Integrated Pest Management

IP

Intellectual Property

IRTAD

International Road Traffic and Accident Database

ISAR

International Standards of Accounting and Reporting

ISCED-97

Revised International Standard Classification of Education

ISCED

International Standard Classification of Education

ISDB

International Sectoral DataBase
(It has been discontinued from 2000 and has now been integrated into the STAN database.)

ISIC

International Standard Industrial Classification

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

ISSA

International Social Security Association

ISUSS

International Survey of Upper Secondary Schools

ITB

Individual Travel Behaviour

ITCS

International Trade by Commodities Statistics (database)

ITD

International Tax Dialogue

ITF

International Transport Forum

ITRD

International Transport Research Documentation (database)

IT

Information Technologies

IUU

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

JTRC

Joint Transport Research Centre

JWG

Joint Working Group

JWP A&E

Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment

JWPTE

Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment

LAFTA

Latin America Free Trade Association

LDC

Least Developed Countries

LEED

Local Economic and Employment Development

LLL

Lifelong Learning

LLN

Language, literacy and numeracy

LMO

Living Modified Organisms

LMP

OECD Labour/Management Programme

MAD

Mutual Acceptance of Data

MAI

Multilateral Agreement on Investment

MAP

Mutual Agreement Procedure

MCM

Ministerial Council Meeting

MDG

Millennium Development Goals

MDP

Municipal Development Programme

MEA

Multilateral Environmental Agreement

MEDA

Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey

MEI

Main Economic Indicators

MENA

Middle East and North Africa

MFA

Material Flow Accounting

MFN

Most-Favoured Nation

MFP

Multi-Factor Productivity

MLA

Mutual Legal Assistance

MNE

Multinational Enterprises

MPS

Market Price Support

MSIT

Monthly Statistics of International Trade (database)

MSTI

Main Science and Technology Indicators

MTC

Maritime Transport Committee

NACE

Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community

NAC

Nominal Assistance Coefficient

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement

NAIRU

Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment

NAP

National Action Plans on Employment

NAWRU

Non-Accelerating Wage Rate of Unemployment

NCCT

Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories

NCP

National Contact Point

NDC

Nuclear Development Committee (NEA)

NEAP

National Environmental Action Programmes

NEA

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

NEHRT

New and Emerging Health-Related Technologies

NEIM

Non Member Economies and International Migration Division

NEPAD

New Partnership for Africa's Development

NERO

National Economic Research Organisations

NESTI

National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators

NGO

Non-Governmental Organisations

NII

National Information Infrastructure

NIS

Newly Independent States

NLC

Nuclear Law Committee (NEA)

NML

New Millennium Learners

NPC

Nominal Protection Coefficient

NPP

Nuclear Power Plant

NSC

Nuclear Science Committee (NEA)

NSO

National Statistical Offices

NTB

Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM

Non-Tariff Measures

ODA

Official Development Assistance

ODF

Official Development Finance

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OER

Open Educational Resources

OFC

Offshore Financial Centers

OLIS

OECD Online Information Services

OMR

Oil Market Report

OOE

Other OECD

OOF

Other Official Flows

PAC

Public Affairs and Communications Directorate

PALOP

African Countries with Portuguese as the Official Language (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe)

PAN

Pesticide Action Network

PARIS21

Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century

PD/GG

Working Group on Participatory Development and Good Governance

PDG

Partnership for Democratic Governance

PEB

OECD Programme on Educational Building

PES

Public Employment Service

PET

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

PFI

Public (or Private) Finance Initiative

PIAAC

Programme for th International Assessment of Adult Competencies

PISA

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment

PMF

Public Management Forum

POE

Post-Occupancy Evaluation

POVNET

DAC Network on Poverty Reduction

PPI

Producer Price Indices

PPP

Public/Private Partnership

PPP

Purchasing Power Parities

PRSP

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

PRTR

Pollutant Release and Transfer Register

PSE

Producer Support Estimate (indicator used as of 1999 at the OECD)
Producer Subsidy Equivalent (indicator used until 1998 at the OECD)

PSPE

Public Sector Pay and Employment (database)

PSSP

Private Sector Development Support Programme

PUMA

Public Management Committee

Q(SAR)

OECD (Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationships

QA

Quality Assurance

R&D

Research and Development

RDS

Research and Development Statistics (formerly Basic Science and Technology Statistics)

RGI

Regulatory Governance Initiative

RIA

Regulatory Impact Analysis

ROPPA

West African Network of Farmers' Organisations and Agricultural Producers

ROW

Rest of the world

RTA

Regional Trade Agreements

RTRP

OECD Road Transport and Intermodal Linkages Research Programme

RTR

Road Transport Research

RWMC

Radioactive Waste Management Committee (NEA)

SA IFED

South America Investment, Finance and Enterprise Development Programme

SADC

Southern African Development Community (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe)

SAEN

South African Enterprise Network

SAH

Sahel and West Africa Club

SAICM

Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management

SA

seasonally adjusted

SEA

Socio-Economic Analysis

SEEFED

South East Europe Forum for Enterprise Development

SEEPAD

South Eastern European Partnership on Accountancy Development

SEE

South Eastern Europe

SENDDD

Students with Disabilities, Difficulties, Disadvantages

SFT

Schooling for Tomorrow

SGCG

Steering Group on Corporate Governance

SGE

General Secretariat of the OECD

SHA

System of Health Accounts

SIALS

Second International Adult Literacy Survey

SIAM

SIDS (Screening Information Data Set) Initial Assessment Meeting

SIAR

SIDS (Screening Information Data Set) Initial Assessment Report

SIDS

Screening Information Data Set

SIGMA

Support for Improvement in Governance and Management - a joint initiative of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), principally financed by the EU