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Environmental information systems
GLOSSARY
| AE 94 | Air Emissions 94 |
| CASPER | Model for EU for estimating emissions of air pollutants. |
| COPERT | Software implementing default CORINAIR methodology for estimating emissions from road transport |
| CORINAIR | CORINe Air Emissions Inventory |
| CORINE | CO oRdination dINformation Environnementale |
| EEA | European Environment Agency |
| EEA-TF | European Environment Agency Task Force |
| EIONET | European Information and Observation Network |
| EMEP | European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme for the long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe |
| EU | European Union |
| EUROSTAT | The EUs statistical office |
| FCCC | Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| FORMOVE | Model for EU forecasting emissions from road transport. |
| HELCOM | Helsinki Convention on pollution in the Baltic Sea |
| HFC | Hydrofluorocarbon |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| LCPD | Large Combustion Plant Directive |
| LRTAP | Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution |
| NFP | National Focal Point |
| NRC | National Reference Centre |
| NUTS | The EUs system of classifying territorial units. |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OSPAR | Oslo and Paris Conventions on the pollution of the North Sea |
| PFC | Perfluorocarbon (e.g. carbon tetrachloride CF 4 and hexafluorethane C 2 F 6 ) |
| POP | Persistent Organic Pollutant |
| SNAP | Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution |
| UNECE | United Nations Economic Committee for Europe |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
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