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Pan-European
Corridors
See “Helsinki Corridors”
PHARE PHARE is a key source of EU grant funding for CEECs. The
(francophone) acronym PHARE meant “Poland and Hungary -
Assistance for Economic Reconstruction.” The acronym became
common usage and was kept even after the program was extended to
include other CEECs.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/pas/phare/
SAPARD
Pre-accession instrument for agricultural and rural development aid to
the candidate countries http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/
external/enlarge/back/index_en.htm
SDS Sustainable Development Strategy of the EU, published in 2001.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/eussd/
Subsidarity
“The subsidiarity principle is intended to ensure that decisions are
taken as closely as possible to the citizen and that constant checks are
made as to whether action at Community level is justified in the light
of the possibilities available at national, regional or local level.
Specifically, it is the principle whereby the Union does not take action
(except in the areas which fall within its exclusive competence) unless
it is more effective than action taken at national, regional or local
level. It is closely bound up with the principles of proportionality and
necessity, which require that any action by the Union should not go
beyond what is necessary to achieve the objectives of the Treaty.”
EU Glossary
TENs Trans-European Networks. Usually the generic term for
interconnected networks and services available on a pan-European
basis, in this study, “TENs” is frequently used as a short-hand for the
EU’s Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T).
http://www.europarl.eu.int/factsheets/4_6_1_en.htm
TEU
TINA
ToA
Treaty of the European Union (1992) a.k.a. Maastricht Treaty
Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment for the CEE candidate
countries. The TINA exercise was completed in 1999.
“The Treaty of Amsterdam was adopted at the Amsterdam European
Council on 16 and 17 June 1997 and signed on 2 October 1997 by the
Foreign Ministers of the fifteen Member States. It entered into force
on 1 May 1999 after ratification by all the Member States in
accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. From
the legal point of view, the Treaty amends certain provisions of the EU
Treaty, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and
certain related acts. It does not replace the other Treaties; rather, it
stands alongside them.” EU Glossary