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CSD
CTP
DG
b) Committee on Spatial Development, the EU Committee responsible
for dealing with the “ESDP”
Common Transport Policy “The aim of the common transport policy is
to lay down common rules applicable to international transport to or
from the territory of the Member States or passing across the territory
of one or more of them (Articles 70 to 80 of the EC Treaty).” EU
Glossary
Directorate General
DG Enlargement EU Commission Directorate General for Enlargement
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/
DG Regio EU Commission Directorate General for Regional Policy
http://europa.eu.int/comm/regional_policy/index_en.htm
DG TREN Directorate General for Transport and Energy, merged in 2000
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/index_en.html
EAP
EBRD
ECMT
ECU
EEA
EIB
EMU
ERT
Environmental Action Program
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
http://www.ebrd.com
The European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) is an
intergovernmental organization established by a Protocol signed in
Brussels on 17 October 1953. It provides European forum for policy
cooperation at the ministerial level.
http://www1.oecd.org/cem/about.htm
European Currency Unit, the old, virtual European unitary currency
unit before the Euro, 1 ECU = 1 €
European Environment Agency http://www.eea.eu.int/
European Investment Bank. Created in 1958 under the Treaty of
Rome, the European Investment Bank is the financing institution of
the European Union. Its task it “to contribute towards the integration,
balanced development and economic and social cohesion of the
Member Countries. To this end, it raises on the markets substantial
volumes of funds which it directs on the most favourable terms
towards financing capital projects according with the objectives of the
Union. Outside the Union the EIB implements the financial
components of agreements concluded under European development
aid and cooperation policies.” http://www.eib.org
Economic and Monetary Union. “Economic and monetary union
(EMU) is the process whereby the economic and monetary policies of
the Member States of the Union are being harmonised with a view to
the introduction of a single currency.” EU Glossary
European Round Table of Industrialists. Created in 1983, the ERT is
“a forum of 42 European industrial leaders aiming at promoting the