| ESPRID Glossary |
| Atlantic Arc | Atlantic Arc Region, designated under the INTERREG Programme |
| BSR | Baltic Sea Region, designated under the INTERREG framework |
| CADSES | The operational programme for Central, Adriatic, Danubian and South European Space, designated under the INTERREG framework |
| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy (European Union) |
| CLRAE | Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe, a consultative body which helps new member states with practical aspects of their progress towards establishing effective local and regional self -government |
| COE | Council of Europe |
| CPRE | Council for the Protection of Rural England, an organisation which aims to promote the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England by encouraging sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country. |
| CSD | Committee for Spatial Development |
| DTLR | Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, a department of UK Government and operates in England and Wales. Formerly known as the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) |
| EEA | European Environment Agency, based in Copenhagen (http://www.eea.eu.int) |
| E-ESDI | A new European Commission/EUROSTAT initiative on Environmental European Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| ESDP | European Spatial Development Plan, produced by the Committee for Spatial Development and member states in the EU in 1999 |
| ESPON | EU research programme, financed by the ESPON 2006 programme under INTERREG III Art. 53 |
| EUCC | European Union for Coastal Conservation |
| EUROCITIES | EUROCITIES is an association of metropolitan cities, based in Brussels (http://www.eurocities.org) |
| EUROSTAT | Statistical Office of the European Communities |
| ICZM | Integrated Coastal Zone Management (see memo on Coastal Zone Management which will be produced by the end of 2001) |
| INTERREG | The Community initiative launched in 1990 in recognition of the particular problems faced by border regions in an integrating Europe. Subsequently, there has been a substantial increase in funding of the Interreg programme, and a broadening of its scope from land borders in Interreg 1, to maritime borders in Interreg 11 and transnational regions in Interreg 11C. |
| LEADER | Community initiative for rural development (Liason Entre Actions Development Economics Rural) |
| MEDA | MEDA programme is the principal financial instrument of the EU for the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. The programme offers technical and financial support measures to accompany the reform of economic and social structures in the Mediterranean partners. |
| NSR | North Sea Region, designated under the INTERREG framework |
| NUTS | Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics i.e. statistical classification of territorial units in order to ensure the production and dissemination of comparable regional statistics in the Community |
| NUTS level 1 | Areas with the average size of administrative units that lie within the population threshold of 3 - 7 millions. |
| NUTS level 2 | Areas with the average size of administrative units that lie within the population threshold of 800,000 - 3 millions. |
| NUTS level 3 | Areas with the average size of administrative units that lie within the population threshold of 150,000 - 800,000. |
| NUTS level 4 | Areas in lower tier authorities (districts) or individual unitary authorities |
| NUTS level 5 | Ward area (or communes) |
| NWMA | North West Metropolitan Area, designated under the INTERREG framework |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an international organisation based in Paris (http://www.oecd.org) |
| PHARE | One of the three pre-accession instruments financed by the EC to assist the applicant countries of central Europe in their preparations for joining the EU |
| RCU | Regional Co-ordination Unit, a British Central Government initiative |
| RDA | Regional Development Agency, lead body at regional level and responsible for developing a strategy for its region. For example, North East RDA, West Midlands RDA |
| RPG | Regional Planning Guidance, guidance which provides the land use planning framework for the regions as set out in the Planning Policy Guidance Note 11 "Regional Planning". For example, RPG 10: South West Region and RPG 6: Eastern Region |
| SME/SMI | Small and medium-sized enterprises / Small and medium-sized industries |
| SPESP | Study Programme on European Spatial Planning, undertaken in 1998 - 2000 |
| TACIS | Launched in the EC in 1991, the TACIS programme provides grant-financed technical assistance to countries of Eastern Europe, and mainly aims at enhancing the transition process in these countries |
| TENs | Trans-European Networks |
| VASAB 2010 | Vision and Strategies Around the Baltic 2010 i.e. an intergovernmental programme of the Baltic Sea Region countries on multilateral spatial planning and development in the region; designated under the INTERREG framework |
