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Cultural marketsA term used to describe a market in which <strong>cultural</strong> goods and services are traded. It refers tonational, regional as <strong>we</strong>ll as global markets <strong>of</strong> <strong>cultural</strong> goods and services.Euro-Mediterranean PartnershipThe Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Barcelona Process) is a wide framework <strong>of</strong> political,economic and social relations bet<strong>we</strong>en <strong>the</strong> 25 members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>European</strong> Union and partners <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Mediterranean. The latter includes ten countries around <strong>the</strong> MediterraneanSea – Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia andTurkey. Since 1999 Libya has had observer status.<strong>European</strong> added valueThe principle <strong>of</strong> <strong>European</strong> added value describes <strong>the</strong> <strong>EU</strong> principle that anything action undertakenby <strong>the</strong> <strong>EU</strong> as a whole should complement actions undertaken by <strong>the</strong> individual member states.It is one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> funding criteria in Culture 2000, requiring projects to have a <strong>European</strong> dimension.<strong>European</strong> Economic AreaThe <strong>European</strong> Economic Area (EEA) began in 1994 following an agreement bet<strong>we</strong>en <strong>the</strong><strong>European</strong> Free Trade Association (EFTA) and <strong>the</strong> <strong>European</strong> Union (<strong>EU</strong>). It allo<strong>we</strong>d EFTA countriesto take part in <strong>the</strong> <strong>European</strong> single market without having to join <strong>the</strong> <strong>EU</strong>. The current members arethree <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> four EFTA states – Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, (without Switzerland), plus <strong>the</strong><strong>EU</strong> and <strong>the</strong> 25 <strong>EU</strong> member states.<strong>European</strong> UnionThe <strong>European</strong> Union (<strong>EU</strong>) is a union <strong>of</strong> 25 independent states based on <strong>the</strong> <strong>European</strong> Community(founded in 1965). The <strong>EU</strong> itself was founded in 1992 after <strong>the</strong> adoption <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> MaastrichtTreaty which came into force on January 1 1993. The <strong>European</strong> Union aims to enhance political,economic and social cooperation bet<strong>we</strong>en its member states. See also Transition countries.EurostatEurostat is <strong>the</strong> statistical <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>European</strong> Communities, established in 1953. Its task isto ga<strong>the</strong>r and analyze figures from <strong>the</strong> different <strong>European</strong> statistics <strong>of</strong>fices in order to providecomparable and harmonized data to <strong>European</strong> institutions so <strong>the</strong>y can define, implement andanalyze community <strong>policies</strong>.Intellectual property rightsThere is a body <strong>of</strong> law about rights to `intellectual property’, such as patents, copyright,trademarks, and so on.L’exception culturelleThis translates in <strong>the</strong> <strong>EU</strong> context, to mean `leaving culture out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> general rules for o<strong>the</strong>r sectors’.See also footnote 41.Annex 4 Glossary113

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