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ACCOR	Nomenclature of emitting activities in CORINE
AS	Area Source
BUF	Bottom-Up Function
CORINAIR	Acronym for air emission inventory initially developed in the frame of the CORINE programme
Dbase	Database system
EB	Energy Balance
EEA	European Environment Agency
EMEP	European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of Long Range Transmission of Air Pollutants
ETC/AEM	European Topic Center on Air Emission
EU	European Union
EUROSTAT	Statistical Office of the European Communities
GEIA	Global Emissions Inventory Activity
HELCOM	Helsinki Commission
HFC	Hydrofluorocarbons
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
LCPD	Large Combustion Plan Directive
LHV	Low Heat Value
LOTOS	Dutch-German project on photochemical pollution
LPS	Large Point Source
LPSD	Large Point Source Data
LTO	Landing and Take Off
NAD	National Aggregated Data
NAF	National Aggregation Function
NAPFUE	Nomenclature for Air Pollution of FUELS
NDAS	National Detailed Area Sources
NMVOC	Non Methane Volatile Organic Compound
NUTS	Nomenclature of Statistical Territorial Units
ODBC	Open DataBase Connectivity
ORACLE	Database system
PARCOM/ATMOS	Paris Commission - Working group on atmospheric input
PFC	Perfluorocarbons
POPs	Persistent Organic Pollutants
RUBRIC	In CORINAIR System additional item to SNAP and NAPFUE to define elementary emitting activities
SDI	Spatially Disaggregated Inventory
SNAP	Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution
UNECE	United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNIX	Computer operating system
WINDOWS	Computer graphic interface