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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 CF₄ and hexafluorethane C₂F₆)
POP	Persistent Organic Pollutant
SNAP	Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution
UNECE	United Nations Economic Committee for Europe
WHO	World Health Organisation