Glossary

Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products

A type of mutual recognition agreement, based on the promise that a third country adopts part of the EU acquis and adopts its quality infrastructure in order to implement it, in return for access to the Single Market for the products covered.

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China

Association of South-East Asian Nations

Countries which have been confirmed by the European Council as a candidate to accede to the European Union, once the accession negotiations have been successfully completed. CC's are Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. With the latter country, negotiations have not yet been started.

Candidate Country

Common Economic Space between the EU and Russia

Confederation of Indian Industry

Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme

The current framework for EU-Russia relations is a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), which was enhanced by the creation of roadmaps for 4 Common Spaces in 2005. The Common Economic Space covers trade and economic relations.

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada

The Doha Round (also named the Doha Development Agenda) of world trade negotiations was launched in Doha (Qatar) in November 2001. The agenda of the Doha Round is specifically targeted at addressing the needs of developing countries. The focus of negotiations has been on reforming agricultural subsidies, improving access to global markets and ensuring that new liberalisation in the global economy respects the need for sustainable economic growth in developing countries.

You will find more information on the Doha round on the World Trade Organization official website.

European Business and Technology Centre in Delhi

European Charter for Small Enterprises

European Free Trade Association

European Investment Bank

Europe-India Chamber of Commerce

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme

European Medicines Agency

European Neighbourhood Policy

European Training Foundation

European Trade Union Federation: Textiles, clothing and leather

EU-Israel Business Dialogue

EU-Japan Business Round Table

The European Union's policy for relations with third countries on its borders, including those bordering the Mediterranean Sea, and those to the East.

Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

Free Trade Agreement

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

General System of Preferences

EU-Russia Industrialists Round Table

MERCOSUR-Europe Business Forum

Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Mutual Recognition Agreements

Chinese National Development and Reform Commission

Neighbourhood Investment Facility

Non trade barriers are measures other than high import duties (tariffs) employed to restrict imports.

You will find more information on non tariff barriers on the World Trade Organization official website.

Organisation of Ecomonic Cooperation and Development

Office of Management and Budget in the USA

Partnership and Cooperation Agreement

Potential Candidate Country

Countries whose European perspectives have been confirmed and which are part of the EC's pre-accession strategy, but who have not yet been given formal candidate status. The PCC's are Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania. Kosovo/UNSCR 1244 is also included in this pre-accession strategy.

Stabilisation and Association Agreement

According to Article 2 of the Annex to Recommendation 2003/361/EC, the category of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is made up of enterprises which employ fewer than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover not exceeding €50 million, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding €43 million (see: SME definition). SMEs are the backbone of the EU economy - they represent 99 % of all enterprises in the EU. Some 23 million SMEs provide around 75 million jobs.

Agreements on sanitary and phytosanitary measures

Transatlantic Business Dialogue

Technical Barriers to Trade

Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement between the EU and South Africa

Trade Defence Instruments

Transatlantic Economic Council

Trade and Investment Enhancement Agreement

Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue

Trans-Regional EU-ASEAN Trade Initiative

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

World Trade Organisation

(Organisation Mondiale du Commerce)