Controlled vocabularies

The access-right authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the access rights or restrictions to resources. It is designed for but not limited to DCAT descriptions of datasets. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides a list of options for the use of accessibility criteria for person with disabilities in the technical specifications within the domain of public procurement.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Accreditation decisions provides information about the outcome of an accreditation process. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Accreditation statuses allows the determination of whether the accreditation status of an institution / programme is settled, pending review, obsolete, etc. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Accreditation types allows learning opportunity providers and credential issuers to describe, in a standardised way, the quality assurance of their institution or programme, and whether or not it legally grants a license to operate. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Activity Coding List is used in the Harmonised European Time Use Surveys (HETUS) to quantify how much time people spend on various activities, including paid work, household chores and family care, personal care, voluntary work, social life, travel and leisure. It is based on international practices and previous classifications of daily activities used in Europe. The initial coding system and index were tested and revised on the basis of time use pilot surveys in 18 countries. The final system was completed in 2000 and revised in 2008 and in 2018. The European activity coding list allows several groupings of activities depending on the purpose of the analysis.

Eurostat website: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/time-use-surveys/overview

The Address type authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that provides the address types as used in the EU Whoiswho application. The AT gives the authority code and the English label for each concept. The Address type AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Administrative territorial unit (ATU) authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with various administrative territorial units of current and past EU Member States.

An administrative territorial unit is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration. Due to the large volume of lowest level administrative units (local authority, municipality) in certain countries, these units have not yet been fully implemented. ATU is structured by countries and contains labels in the official language(s) of the concerned country and in English.

The classification of each territorial unit can be found in the related Administrative territorial unit type authority table. 

ATU is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

ATU is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Administrative territorial unit type authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary which provides the various types of administrative territorial units within the Member States of the European Union. It is linked to the Administrative territorial unit table that provides the list of the subdivisions per country. 

The categorization of these types is based on national official information and the Committee of the Regions of the European Union has provided the translations in all official languages of the European Union. The ISO 3166-2 standard has also been used. Where there are differences in the territorial unit types and the ISO code, the legal basis of the country concerned has taken precedence. 

An administrative unit is defined for the purpose of administration with a certain degree of autonomy and is country-specific. The administrative unit refers to public administration for which the administrative law is applicable.

The administrative territorial unit types must not be confused with the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS). The NUTS is delineated according to the population living in the territorial unit and is used in an economical/statistical environment. The administrative territorial unit types must not be confused with the jurisdiction territories designed for the competence area of Courts. In certain countries, the subdivisions may be the same for the administrative, economical, statistical and jurisdiction units.

This AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

In the context of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC) the Institutions have decided to use XML as structured, machine-readable format for implementation and the Akoma Ntoso XML schema for the mark-up of the content of the legislative documents that are managed and exchanged by the Institutions in the scope of the legislative process.

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This table provides a list of the options pertinent to be chosen for a matter concerning the applicability of predefined fields. It is designed for but not restricted to the context of public procurement.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Assessment types describes potential means to assess a person's learning achievements. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This classification is intended for organising knowledge organisation system (KOS) assets published by the Publications Office of the European Union ranging from controlled lists, terminologies, thesauri, models, markup schemas, ontologies and authoritative assets and other kinds of resources. The assets types are classified by their main function, being classification, sematic or data modelling, handling authoritative data, e.g.The Asset classification authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the EU on the EU Vocabularies website.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Attachment types consists of a list of unstructured document types which can be appended to a report. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the list of rules to be taken into account for the award decisions within the in public procurement procedures. The initial values are those foreseen in the public procurement directives of 2014 (Directives 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU).

The translations provided are those used in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1986 establishing standard forms for the publication of notices in the field of public procurement.

The Binding type authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing methods used to bind a published or unpublished document. The Binding type authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Publications Office has selected BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite) as an XML mark-up model suitable for the production of general publications.

BITS provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange book content, including book parts such as chapters. It provides a set of XML DTD and schema that define elements and attributes to describe textual and graphical contents.

In order to facilitate the reusability, BITS makes a tag set adequate for supporting interchange, archiving, format-conversion and publishing. More details can be found here

The Publications Office is preparing the use of the following version of BITS schema customised to meet the requirements of general publications.

The Business event is a controlled vocabulary classifying public services related to the business events. It is supported by Core public service vocabulary application profile (CPSV-AP) and should help european public administrations to align their catalogue of services.

This table provides a list of the the type of procuring authorities within the domain of public procurement according to legislation.

The Carrier authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing values representing the medium on which content is stored. The Carrier authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Case report authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the different names of the case law reports of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Case report AT is used in an IMMC extension for which only one institution is the source (Court of Justice). It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept. The Case report AT is updated in coordination with the Court of Justice and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Case status authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the different statuses used for a case at the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Case status AT is used in an IMMC extension for which only one institution is the source (Court of Justice). It gives the authority code and start-use date of each concept. Case status value indicates the status of the case i.e. case pending (including on-going cases, stayed cases and cases in the process of being discontinued or withdrawn); case closed.

The Case status AT is updated in coordination with the Court of Justice  and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the codes and values used in case of justification of correction applied to a notice within the context of public procurement.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Claim types includes the types of claims which may be made about a person in the context of a learning credential. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

A statistical classification has a structure which is composed of one or several classification levels. A classification level is often characterised by a generic name for the classification items that it regroups. For instance, the NACE uses the terms "sections", "divisions", "groups" and "classes"; the Combined Nomenclature (CN) has sections, chapters, headings, HS subheadings and CN subheadings; the NUTS includes 4 levels: Level 0 (Country), level 1 (NUTS 1), level 2 (NUTS 2) and level 3 (NUTS 3). The bottom level is always the most detailed level i.e., has the most precise information (detailed values) for the variable classifying the statistical unit.

Classification levels is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Classification of Business Functions (CBF 1.0) is intended for use in the production of business statistics, building on experiences from several recent surveys in Europe, Canada, the United States, and India. The primary use of business function statistics is to examine the details of international sourcing. However, it could also be applied to domestic sourcing. The CBF is applicable for both developed and developing countries to measure the impact of both domestic and international sourcing in their national economies.

CBF is created and maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Classification of institutional sectors (S) is one of the classifications used in the European System of Accounts (hereinafter referred to as `the ESA 2010' or `the ESA'), an internationally compatible accounting framework for a systematic and detailed description of a total economy (that is, a region, country or group of countries), its components and its relations with other total economies.

ESA 2010 S is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

CReMA classifies resource management activities into seven main categories, and is complemented by the Classification of Environmental Protection Activities (CEPA) that classifies activities aimed at preventing, reducing and eliminating pollution or any other environmental degradation.

Eurostat website: Methodology - Environment - Eurostat (europa.eu)

CReMA 2008 is created and maintained by Eurostat and disseminated by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The COM internal event authority table is a technical table for the internal use of the European Commission. It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Technical table for the internal use of the European Commission.

The Combined Nomenclature 2017 (CN 2017) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.

Legal basis http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/1925/oj: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1925 of 12 October 2017 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 282, 31.10.2017, p. 1–958

Explanatory notes https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2015.076.01.0001.01.ENG to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1 -388

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/methodology/classifications)

The Combined Nomenclature 2018 (CN 2018) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.

Legal basis http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/1925/oj: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1925 of 12 October 2017 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 282, 31.10.2017, p. 1–958

Explanatory notes https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2015.076.01.0001.01.ENG to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1 -388

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/methodology/classifications)

The Combined Nomenclature 2019 (CN 2019) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1602 of 11 October 2018 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 273, 31.10.2018, p. 1 -960

Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1 -388

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications

The Combined Nomenclature 2020 (CN 2020) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1776 of 9 October 2019 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 280, 31.10.2019, p. 1 -1042

Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications

The Combined Nomenclature 2021 (CN 2021) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2159 of 16 December 2020 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, C/2020/9382, OJ L 431, 21.12.2020, p. 34 -37. http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/2159/oj

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1577 of 21 September 2020 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 361, 30.10.2020, p. 1 -1063. http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/1577/oj

Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications

The Combined Nomenclature 2022 (CN 2022) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2022) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties. CN 2022 is made-up of two concept schemes: CN 2022 and HS 2022, which indicates the classification items belonging to the reference classification (HS 2022).

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 of 12 October 2021 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 385, 29.10.2021, p. 1 -1091

Corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 of 12 October 2021 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (Official Journal of the European Union L 385 of 29 October 2021), OJ L 414, 19.11.2021, p. 1 -1091

Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications

The Combined Nomenclature 2023 (CN 2023) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2022) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.

Legal basis http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1998/oj : Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1998 of 20 September 2022 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 282, 31.10.2022, p. 1–1093

Explanatory notes https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2019.119.01.0001.01.ENG to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/methodology/classifications)

The Combined Nomenclature 2024 (CN 2024) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonised System which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2364 of 26 September 2023 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

OJ L, 2023/2364, 31.10.2023.

Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1-422.

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: methodology

The Combined Nomenclature, 2024, is maintained by Eurostat and disseminated by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Common Data Model (CDM) is the formal description of the EU institution's official documents, legislative decision-making process, and its related publications.

More specifically, the CDM describes documents in the legal domain (e.g., the Official Journal, case law, consolidated legislation, preparatory acts, etc.), general publications (e.g., reports, periodical serials, books, brochures, etc.), the different entities related to their creation (e.g., the agent who wrote the document, the procedure and event of which it is the result, etc.), and their relations.

The model is based on the FRBR methodology which is well suited to describe multilingual and multiformat publications.

The CDM is an ontology described in Web Ontology Language (OWL) and it governs the respective document metadata instances in the Common Repository (Cellar). Its documentation can be obtained by dereferencing the ontology URI http://publications.europa.eu/ontology/cdm.

This model is continually refined in collaboration with the business units to guarantee its quality with regards to the institutions’ needs for the structure of their metadata.

To support an effective Single Market, the Commission encourages suppliers and contracting authorities/entities to adopt best practice and use electronic communication and information technology to provide all the relevant information, so as to ensure best value for money in public procurement.

To make public procurement more transparent and efficient, in 1993 the Commission drafted the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV).

To support an effective Single Market, the Commission encourages suppliers and contracting authorities/entities to adopt best practice and use electronic communication and information technology to provide all the relevant information, so as to ensure best value for money in public procurement.

To make public procurement more transparent and efficient, in 1993 the Commission drafted the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV).

This table provides the justification for restricting access rights to resources within the context of public procurement.

The Concept status authority table is an internal controlled vocabulary used at the Publications Office. It provides the various statuses used in a harmonised way amongst the authority tables. Concepts with current, deprecated and retired statuses are published while the remaining statuses are related to the internal workflow. The Concept status authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Confidentiality level authority table is a controlled vocabulary used to define the information confidentiality levels according to the European Commission Security Notice ‘Information assessment and classification’, C(2019) 1903 final, 5.3.2019.

The Confidentiality level authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs. 

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Confidentiality level authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The continent authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of continents. This table is an internal table at the Publications Office of the European Union derived from the country authority table.

This table provides a framework to represent data relating to procurement.

This table provides a list of different types of subjects and goods that  can be acquired by means of a public contract such as works, supplies and services by one or more contracting authorities from economic operators.

The Corporate body authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the varying names of EU corporate bodies for a given time span. Some other – international and national – corporate bodies are also included as far as they are used in the various systems in the Publications Office. The traceability of the chronological modifications is ensured when possible. 

The Corporate body authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The corporate-body-classification authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing types of corporate bodies. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website). 

‘Countries and territories’ is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with names of countries and territories. It is a corporate reference data asset covered by the Corporate Reference Data Management policy of the European Commission.

The corporate list provides codes and names of geospatial and geopolitical entities in all official EU languages and is the result of a combination of multiple relevant standards, created to serve the requirements and use cases of the EU institutions services. Its main scope is to support documentary metadata activities. 

The codes of the concepts included are correlated with the ISO 3166 international standard. The authority code relies where possible on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. Additional user-assigned alpha-3 codes have been used to cover entities that are not included in the ISO 3166-1 standard. 

The corporate list contains mappings with the ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes, the Interinstitutional Style Guide codes and with other internal and external identifiers including ISO 3166-1 numeric, ISO 3166-3, UNSD M49, UNSD Geoscheme, IBAN, TIR, IANA domain.

For the names of countries and territories, the corporate list synchronises with the Interinstitutional Style Guide (ISG, Section 7.1 and Annexes A5 and A6) and with the IATE terminology database.

Membership and classification properties provide possibilities to group concepts, e.g., UN, EU, EEA, EFTA, Schengen area, Euro area, NATO, OECD, UCPM, ENP-EAST, ENP-SOUTH, EU candidate countries and potential candidates.

The corporate list ‘Countries and territories’ is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. Regular updates are foreseen based on its stakeholders’ needs.

Downloads in human-readable formats (.csv, .html) are also available.

The Court type authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the classification of EU courts as well as the general three-level classification of national courts. It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept and gives labels in all official EU languages. The Court type AT is updated in coordination with the Court of Justice of the European Union and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The list of Credential types describes types of European Digital Credentials for Learning, each of which is associated with an application profile of the European Learning Model (ELM). The list of Credential types is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides criteria used for public procurement procedures.

The Currency authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with currencies and currency subunits.

The concepts included are correlated with the ISO 4217 international standard.

The Currency authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Currency authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides a list of customer services.

The type of contract of the procurement procedure within the scope of Clean Vehicles Directive 2009/33/EC.

The Data service type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible types of data services.It has been developed specifically for the Linked Data Solutions (LDS) project. 

The Data service type authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Data service type authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Data theme authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with themes used for dataset classification.

Its main scope is to support activities associated with the Data Catalog Vocabulary application profile (DCAT-AP). 

The concepts have been defined by the working group in charge of the revision of the DCAT-AP.

The Data theme authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Data theme authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Dataset status authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible statuses for datasets. It has been developed specifically for the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Dataset type authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with types of datasets.

Its main scope is to support dataset categorisation of the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’.

The Dataset type authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Dataset type authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens standard list identifies the key components of digital competence in 5 broader, and a total of 21 narrower areas, with eight proficiency levels for each concept and a few contextualising examples of use. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) is a multilingual thesaurus covering the main subject matters of the European Commission's public communications.

This table provides the list of reasons for using a procedure which allows awarding contracts directly without the requirement of publishing a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The Directory of EU legal acts authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that contains the directories of EU legislation (Directory of European Union legislation, Directory of European Union preparatory acts, Directory of international agreements and Directory of European Union consolidated acts) which facilitate the access to EU legislation by subject. The directory of EU legal acts is structured into 20 chapters with divisions into further sub-sections as necessary. The Directory of EU legal acts AT is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept and gives labels in all official EU languages. The Directory of EU legal acts AT is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Directory of legal acts is accessible at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/browse/directories/legislation.html

The Dissemination status authority table provides values for describing the status of dissemination for content, e.g. serials, monographic series, mobile applications, podcasts, datasets. It has been developed specifically for the Cataloguing Team which manages (metadata of the) general publications. 

The Dissemination status authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs. 

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU. 

The Dissemination status authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Distribution status authority table is a controlled vocabulary used to define the status of distributions of datasets described using the DCAT-AP data model. It has been developed to allow using the ADMS terms prescribed by DCAT-AP, as a controlled vocabulary. 

This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Distribution status authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs. 

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU. 

The Distribution status authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Distribution type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible distribution types. It has been developed specifically for the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’. 

The Distribution type authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Distribution type authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Document identifier format authority file describes the standardised syntax of the identifiers of documents produced by the institutions of the European Union in particular. This authority file was created to be used by metadata in the AKN4EU mark-up language. It provides for each identifier marked a mapping with a standardised syntax with a decomposition into the subcomponents and for each subcomponent a meaning depending on the type of identifier. Each institution can have its own naming convention and is allowed to map it according to its own naming convention inside the text.

The Document identifier format authority file is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on EU Vocabularies website.

This authority table lists the different types of reference documents related to the ESPD procurement procedure and in the case of notices whether they have been published at national, regional or European level.

The Documentation type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible documentation types. It has been developed specifically for the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides a list  wether a dynamic purchasing system is involved in a procurement and, in case of central purchasing bodies, whether it can be used by buyers not listed in the notice of the Official Journal of the European Union.

Dating from 1978 when catalogues of the Central Library of the Commission of the European Communities (now the European Union) were computerised, ECLAS is a thesaurus created by the Central Library of the Commission of the European Communities for indexing the publications and documents acquired by the Central Library of the Commission. ECLAS was based on the Macrothesaurus of OECD and complemented by the ILO thesaurus. After creation of EUROVOC in 1984, convergence started in order to bring ECLAS in line with EUROVOC, but it was never complete. ECLAS contains nineteen areas of interest in a hierarchical tree structure consisting of four levels. ECLAS is fully available in English and in French.

The OP COMM ECLAS is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table identifies the role of the economic operator in the procurement.

This table provides the different categories in which the tenderers to whom a contract can be awarded are classified, according to their size (using as criteria the number of employees).

EDCC Taxonomy contains the terms that are used to classify citizens' requests to the Europe Direct Contact Centre (EDCC).

EDCC Taxonomy is maintained by the Directorate-General for Communication of the European Commission and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Educational credit systems distinguishes between existing and widely used European credit systems, e.g. for higher education (ECTS) and for vocational education and training (ECVET). It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The ELI Draft Legislation Ontology (ELI-DL) is an independent extension of the core ELI ontology. It enables the semantic annotation of bills, or legislative projects pages published in the portals of Official Journals or Parliaments.

ELI Impact Ontology (ELI-I) is an extension to the ELI ontology that provides more comprehensive information about the impact analysis process, the impacts of modifying text and the updates to the consolidated version of the legislation in response to these changes.

The ELI (European Legislation Identifier) ontology defines a common data model for exchanging legislation metadata on the web. The primary users of the ELI model are the official legal publishers of EU Member States, and the model can also be used by other organisations.

The Encoding Level authority table provides values that indicates the fullness of the bibliographic information and/or content designation of the MARC record. The Encoding level authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of content encoding types provides a reference to encoding schemes used by the European Digital Credentials for Learning Infrastructure. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Entitlement statuses allows the determination of whether the entitlement awarded to learners who successfully complete a learning opportunity is actual or prospective. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Entitlement types provides a list of different kinds of entitlements that a person can achieve by successfully completing a learning opportunity, e.g. to practice a profession, take advantage of a learning opportunity or join an organisation. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Entity Legal Forms is a code list that provides the distinct entity legal forms in a wide range of jurisdictions all over the world specifying the ELF code (Entity Legal Form Code) and the abbreviations in the local language. The author of DIGIT Entity Legal Forms is the Commission DG DIGIT and it is published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides the information about whether a procurement includes a process to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life cycle.

ERA vocabulary is an ontology defined by the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) to describe the concepts and relationships related to the European railway infrastructure and the vehicles authorized to operate over it. The infrastructure portion contains the Implementation layer that represents the railway network as a number of operational points (OPs) connected with sections of line (SoLs), describing the following structural subsystems of the Union rail system: the infrastructure subsystem, the energy subsystem, the trackside control-command and signalling subsystem. It also contains the Topological layer where the network topological concepts are defined. The Railway Vehicle types portion contains the route compatibility check-related technical characteristics of vehicle types.

The author of ERA vocabulary is ERA and it is published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The ESS Quality Glossary is a comprehensive collection of the terms and concepts related to the main activities of the ESS in the field of statistical quality, such as the Peer Reviews. It also addresses conceptual and methodological work within the ESS, taking stock of current research and scientific publications on quality in official statistics.

Eurostat website: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/

The ESS Quality Glossary is maintained by Eurostat in collaboration with the Working Group on Quality in Statistics and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This authority table provides possible statuses for amounts in the EU budget. It has been developed specifically for the EU budget as Linked Open Data project.

This authority table provides possible stages of the EU budget preparatory actions and pilot projects. It has been developed specifically for the EU budget as Linked Open Data project.

This authority table provides possible statuses of the EU budget preparatory actions and pilot projects. It has been developed specifically for the EU budget as Linked Open Data project.

The EU Budget Vocabulary and its RDF serialisation are designed to facilitate the exchange, increase the understandability and foster the reusability of budgetary information published by the EU. The Vocabulary aims to increase government transparency by improving the availability, usability and understandability of the EU Budget.

The EU political leader name is a named authority list that currently contains the members of the College of Commissioners 2019-2024. The members of the College are the Commission's political leadership. The EU political leader name is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The EU programme authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the list of programmes created and coordinated by the European Union and financially supported by the European Union or, in a few cases, by the contributions from the Member States. It has been developed specifically for the EU Budget as open linked data project. It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept and gives labels in all official EU languages. The EU programme AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. It is a corporate reference data asset covered by the Corporate Reference Data Management policy of the European Commission. 

The Europass Learning Model can be used to capture the results of any non-formal and formal learning across Europe, as well as the validation of non-formal and informal learning. It is designed to provide a single format to describe certificates of attendance, examination results, degrees and diplomas, diploma supplements, professional certifications, employer recommendations and any other kind of claims that are related to learning.

The Europass Learning Model has been deprecated and replaced by the European Learning Model. Please consult the European Learning Model.

European business statistics (EBS) cover the structure, economic activities and performance of businesses, their research and development as well as innovation activities, their information and communication technologies (ICT) usage and e-commerce, and global value chains. They also comprise statistics on the production of manufactured goods and services and the international trade in goods and services as well as essential statistical infrastructure such as national statistical business registers and the EuroGroups register. EBS provide users and key policymakers with much needed information for decision-making or for analytical purposes. European business statistics (EBS) manuals seeks to serve statistical experts and users alike as a comprehensive reference to the world of EBS by providing an overview of business statistics while highlighting the features introduced by the new regulatory framework. Furthermore, the manual describes the various statistical tools and activities supporting EBS production such as statistical units and profiling, classifications, data processing or statistical disclosure control.

ECOICOP (European Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose) is based on COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose), a reference classification published by the United Nations Statistics Division, which is used in National accounts, Household Budget surveys (HBS), Price Statistics (HICP) and Purchasing Power Parities (PPP). Parts of this classification are also used in Food safety statistics or environment statistics.

ECOICOP is consistent with the UN version at four digits, harmonized and developed by Eurostat at 5-digit levels. The objectives are to lay down a framework of homogeneous categories of goods and services, which are considered as a function or purpose of expenditure by households with the object of classifying transactions in relation to individual consumption, social transfers and households' real consumption.

Legal basis: Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on harmonised indices of consumer prices and the house price index, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95, OJ L 135, 24.5.2016, p. 11 -38.

ECOICOP is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The European Commission web presence classes is a taxonomy owned and used by DG COMM. The European Commission's web presence - ec.europa.eu - is built around 15 classes. These classes are structured around user tasks. The European Commission web presence classes is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website for DG COMM.

The European Learning Model can be used to capture the results of any non-formal and formal learning across Europe, as well as the validation of non-formal and informal learning. It is designed to provide a single format to describe certificates of attendance, examination results, degrees and diplomas, diploma supplements, professional certifications, employer recommendations and any other kind of claims that are related to learning.

The European List of Wastes (LoW) is the waste classification in the EU for administrative purposes, i.e. for permitting and supervision in the field of waste generation and management. The LoW defines 842 waste types which are structured into 20 chapters and 111 sub-chapters, mainly according to the source of the waste (i.e. the economic sector or process of origin). Each waste type is characterised by a six-digit code. Any waste marked with an asterisk (*) in the list of wastes shall be considered as hazardous waste pursuant to Directive 2008/98/EC. Countries which use the European List of Waste (LoW) for collecting data on waste generation and treatment can use the table of equivalence that has been established between the LoW and the EWC in order to convert their statistics in EWC categories. This transposition table is also useful for countries using the EWC-Stat for their compilation of waste statistics as it provides useful information on the composition of the waste categories listed in EWC-Stat.

Legal basis:2014/955/EU: Commission Decision of 18 December 2014 amending Decision 2000/532/EC on the list of waste pursuant to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 370, 30.12.2014, p. 44 -86.

LoW 2015 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) is an 8-level, learning outcomes-based framework for all types of qualifications that serves as a translation tool between different national qualifications frameworks. This framework helps improve transparency, comparability and portability of people's qualifications and makes it possible to compare qualifications from different countries and institutions. The European Qualifications Framework is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

EURIO (EUropean Research Information Ontology) conceptualises, formally encodes and makes available in an open, structured and machine-readable format data about resarch projects funded by the EU's framework programmes for research and innovation.

European Science Vocabulary (EuroSciVoc) is the taxonomy of fields of science based on OECD's 2015 Frascati Manual taxonomy. It was extended with fields of science categories extracted from CORDIS content through a semi-automatic process developed with Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.

ESeG is a derived classification from ISCO-08, which allows the grouping of individuals with similar economic, social and cultural characteristics throughout the European Union, based only on core social variables to ensure comfortable use in all social surveys providing comparable results.

ESeG 2016 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This code list references the classification series used for the production of European statistics. According to the Generic Statistical Information Model (GSIM), a Classification Series is an ensemble of one or more Statistical Classifications, based on the same concept, and related to each other as versions or updates. Typically, these Statistical Classifications have the same name (for example, NACE or CPA).

Classification Series is maintained by Eurostat and disseminated by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

EuroVoc is a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU. It contains terms in 24 EU languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish), plus in three languages of countries which are candidate for EU accession: Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian.  

EuroVoc is managed by the Publications Office of the European Union, which moved forward to ontology-based thesaurus management and semantic web technologies conformant to W3C recommendations as well as latest trends in thesaurus standards. The thesaurus is disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

EuroVoc users include the European Union institutions, the Publications Office of the EU, national and regional parliaments in Europe, plus national governments and private users around the world.

The Event authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the events that are part of the legal decision making process. It was created in order to harmonize and to trace historically the various events triggered by an agent within the procedures and associated to a resource type. The various sources of information were extracted from Pegase and Prelex. Event is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is also used by EUR-Lex. It provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in all official EU languages. Codes in italic are deprecated and should not be used, except in the case of back-log work. Event is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC). It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Event status authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that describes the status of an event in an interinstutional procedure or an internal procedure of an institution allowing therefore to distinguish aspects of the same (legal) event in time: usually events are post-factum (NORMAL), but they can be PROJECTED to happen in the future or - if that projection was revoked by the projecting stakeholder - CANCELLED. Another projection aspect is setting up a DEADLINE from another event. The Event status AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Evidence types consists of distinct types of supplementary document which may be included in a European Digital Credential for Learning, as an extension of the verifiable credential evidence type. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The File status authority table is a controlled vocabulary that covers various stages in the life cycle of diverse activities. Originally, it described the different stages in the life cycle of an act (or in the decision-making process of an act) from the moment it is launched until the final step is completed, to fulfil the needs of EUR-Lex. As the need arose for a generic status table, this asset has been broadened to provide stages for all kinds of products and processes. The File status authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website).

The File type authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the different types of (digital) files (e.g. PDF, XML, DOC, ...). The File type authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC), maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. It is a corporate reference data asset covered by the Corporate Reference Data Management policy of the European Commission.

This table provides the codes and values used for the type of forms published on TED. 

The Formation of the Court authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary showing the composition of the courts of the European Union according to the case they are seized with (Articles 251, 254 and 257 of the Treaty on Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This AT provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in all official EU languages. The concepts are used for the production of reports of cases before the Court and to publish case-law on the EUR-Lex site. The Formation of the Court  AT is used in an IMMC extension for which only one institution is the source (Court of Justice). It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Formex describes the format for the exchange of data between the Publication Office and its contractors. In particular, it defines the logical markup for documents which are published in the different series of the Offical Journal of the European Union.

Formex V4 is based on the international standard XML (Extensible Markup Language — W3C Recommendation, February 10, 1998). It entered into force on May 1st, 2004. The documentation only exists in English.

This table provides the list of codes to distinguish the different type framework agreement involved in a tender.

The Frequency authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the accrual periodicities in the 24 official languages of the European Union. It also contains concepts for ‘continuous’, ‘irregular’ or ‘unknown’ occurrences.

The Frequency authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the EU on the EU Vocabularies website.

Geonomenclature 2021 (GEONOM 2021) or the nomenclature of countries and territories for the external trade statistics of the Union and statistics of trade between Member States is used by the EU Member States to collect detailed statistics on their exchanges of goods with other Member States (intra-EU trade) or with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade).

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1470 of 12 October 2020 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics, C/2020/6906, OJ L 334, 13.10.2020, p. 2 -21.

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications

Documentation

European Commission, Eurostat, Geonomenclature applicable to European statistics on international trade in goods : 2020 edition, Publications Office, 2020, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/177125

European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics geonomenclature applicable to European statistics on international trade in goods : 2022 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/245222

Geonomenclature 2021 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

Geonomenclature 2022 (GEONOM 2022) is used by the EU Member States to collect detailed statistics on their exchanges of goods with other Member States (intra-EU trade) or with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade).  GEONOM 2022 is also used by Eurostat to disseminate data through Comext, Eurostat's reference database for international trade in goods.

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1470 of 12 October 2020 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 334, 13.10.2020, p. 2 -21.

GEONOM 2022 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

Geonomenclature 2023 (GEONOM 2023) is used by the EU Member States to collect detailed statistics on their exchanges of goods with other Member States (intra-EU trade) or with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade).  GEONOM 2023 is also used by Eurostat to disseminate data through Comext, Eurostat's reference database for international trade in goods.

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1470 of 12 October 2020 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 334, 13.10.2020, p. 2 -21.

GEONOM 2023 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Grade statuses defines the outcome of an assessment. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The grammatical-alternation authority table is a controlled vocabulary which captures the phonological alternations based on whether the first letter of the succeeding word is a consonant or a vowel, completed with a syllable rule.  It is used for number forms in the Maltese language.

The grammatical-consciousness authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the grammatical features regarding consciousness of a substantive. It is designed to capture number form variations in the Irish language, used to enumerate human beings or things and animals.

The grammatical-gender authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the list of the grammatical genders in languages which have gender distinctions: "male", "female", "neuter" or "utrum". It also contains concepts for "no gender" (in languages that do not have gender distinctions) and "generic" (identical forms in languages that make gender distinctions).

The grammatical-gender authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The grammatical-gender authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The grammatical-number authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the list of the grammatical numbers referring to different number of things or persons: "singular", "dual" or "plural". There is also a concept "generic" for forms that do not distinguish between grammatical numbers. 

The grammatical-number authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The grammatical-number authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides the information about whether a procurement procedure includes the use of established green public procurement criteria (selection criteria, technical specifications, award criteria and contract performance clauses), at national, Union or other levels, if applicable.

List of thematic categories of high-value datasets, as set out in Annex I of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information.The concepts listed in this concept scheme are representations of the data categories as set out in Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/138/oj. It is not recommended to use these data categories outside the context of legislation on the re-use of public sector information.

High-value dataset categories is maintained by Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies.

This authority table provides the honorific titles used in addressing or referring to a person as used in the EU Whoiswho. Honorific is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Human sex authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing the list of human sexes. The Human sex authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Illustrative content authority table provides values describing the illustrative content that supplements the textual content. The Illustrative content authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

A minimum set of metadata elements ("Core Metadata") allows the seamless exchange of (meta)data related to the legal decision making process between the EU institutions, including the Publications Office of the European Union.

Extensions further define optional and institution specific metadata elements. The technical implementation of the Core Metadata and the extension metadata was done as a set of XML schemas.

To ensure smooth interoperability and long term stability, modifications to the IMMC schemas are subject to the governance applied by the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC), metadata subgroup, successor of the original IMMC.

IMMC Core Metadata has two main lines of schemas:

• IMMC Core Metadata 2 is mainly used for (meta)data exchanges between the EU institutions in the scope of the legal decision making process and related activities.
• IMMC Core Metadata 3 is mainly used in the document production and archiving environment of the Publications Office.

This line of IMMCv2 schemas is no longer supported.

Please use the schema under the URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/immc_2_core_metadata.

This line of IMMCv2 schemas is no longer supported.

Please use the schema under the URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/immc_2_core_metadata.

This line of IMMCv2 schemas is no longer supported.

Please use the schema under the URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/immc_2_core_metadata.

A minimum set of metadata elements ("Core Metadata") allows the seamless exchange of (meta)data related to the legal decision making process between the EU institutions, including the Publications Office of the European Union.

Extensions further define optional and institution specific metadata elements. The technical implementation of the Core Metadata and the extension metadata was done as a set of XML schemas.

To ensure smooth interoperability and long term stability, modifications to the IMMC schemas are subject to the governance applied by the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC), metadata subgroup, successor of the original IMMC.

IMMC Core Metadata has two main lines of schemas:

• IMMC Core Metadata 2 is mainly used for (meta)data exchanges between the EU institutions in the scope of the legal decision making process and related activities.
• IMMC Core Metadata 3 is mainly used in the document production and archiving environment of the Publications Office.

This line of IMMCv3 schemas is no longer supported.

Please use the schema under the URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/immc_3_core_metadata.

This line of IMMCv3 schemas is no longer supported.

Please use the schema under the URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/immc_3_core_metadata.

This line of IMMCv3 schemas is no longer supported.

Please use the schema under the URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/immc_3_core_metadata.

The Interinstitutional procedure authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing the different procedures used in the context of data exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision-making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in all official EU languages. The Interinstitutional procedure authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This authority table lists the different internal procedures of the institutions involved in the legislative process.

The Eurostat classification ICST-COM which is harmonised with the UNCTAD International Classification of Ship Types, identifies all the ship types. The classification is applicable both to sea-going and to inland waterway craft. The groupings are based according to the construction of the ship or non-ship marine structure, rather than its particular use at a point in time.

Legal basis: Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (Recast) (Text with EEA relevance).

ICST-COM is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) is a framework for assembling, compiling and analysing cross-nationally comparable statistics on education. ISCED Fields of Education and Training classifies education programmes and related qualifications by fields of study: A field is the `broad domain, branch or area of content covered by an education programme or qualification'. The International Standard Classification of Education is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This code list refers generally to the types of irregularities described in Section 2 of the Annex to the Commission Decision C(2019) 3452.

The Label type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing the various forms of labels that are considered alternative labels in the SKOS format. Label type is an internal table at the Publications Office of the European Union.

It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Language authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with languages. Its main scope is to support activities associated with publication process. The concepts included are correlated with the ISO 639 international standard. This standard is issued in several parts:

ISO 639-1 contains strictly two alphabetic letters (alpha-2),

ISO 639-2/B (B = bibliographic) is used for bibliographic purpose (alpha-3),

ISO 639-2/T (T = terminology) is used for technical purpose (alpha-3),

ISO 639-3 covers all the languages and macro-languages of the world (alpha-3); the values are compliant with ISO 639-2/T.

If an authority code is needed for a language without assigned ISO code, an alphanumeric code is created in order to not confuse with ISO codes that are strictly alphabetic.

Contributions to the Language authority table are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Language authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC). It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. It is a corporate reference data asset covered by the Corporate Reference Data Management policy of the European Commission.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Learning activity types categorises and labels activities that learners can engage with in order to achieve pre-defined learning outcomes. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Learning opportunity information topics describes information topics that can be supplied about a learning opportunity and its provider. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Learning opportunity types describes potential delivery formats of organised learning. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Learning schedule types indicates intensity of learning, from light part time to full time engagement. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Learning setting types provides terms to distinguish between formal learning taking place in a more organised and structured environment, and non-formal learning that is more flexible and self-paced, however still involves some form of learning support. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Legal act domain authority file lists the various abbreviations of domains such as EC, EU, Euratom and CFSP, representing the sphere of action of the European Union and its predecessors, and used for numbering of EU legal acts. These domains have changed over the years as new treaties and amendments to the Treaties have been adopted. This authority file was created to be used by EUR-Lex and Cellar. It provides an authority code, the start date and end date, if applicable, of each domain and labels in all official EU languages. 

The Legal act domain authority file is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the legal basis  based on the legal acts  used for a given public procurement procedure. The table is provided by the Publications Office.

The Legal proceeding authority table (AT) presents concepts relating to different legal remedies available to an applicant before the EU Courts (Articles 260, 263, 268 and 270 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union). The Legal proceeding AT is used together with the Legal proceeding result (procresult) AT. The Legal proceeding AT provides an authority code and the start-use date of each concept and labels in all official EU languages. The concepts are used for the production of reports of cases before the Court and to publish the case-law on the EUR-Lex site. The Legal proceeding AT is used in an IMMC extension for which only one institution is the source (Court of Justice). It is updated in coordination with the Court of Justice of the European Union and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

• Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice (18-6-2013): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-10/rp_en.pdf
• Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1-7-2013): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2008-09/txt7_2008-09-25_14-08-6_431.pdf
• Rules of Procedure of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (1-7-2011): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-04/rp_14_04_2010_en.pdf

The Legislative priority authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that lists legislative priorities that are agreed between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in the joint declarations on legislative priorities. This AT is a simple code list with non-human readable codes that provides the labels of all legislative priorities in 24 languages. It was created for the needs of the Joint Legislative Portal (JLP). The Legislative priority AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Licence authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing the European Commission Reuse Notice and the European Union Public Licences. It also provides a list of standard licences available internationally, including the Creative Commons licences. It gives an authority code and labels in most official EU languages. The Licence AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Licence domain authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of domains. All values are used for encoding the classification of licences in the Licence AT. The Licence domain AT is thus a technical authority table. It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Life event is a controlled vocabulary classifying public services related to the life events. It is supported by Core public service vocabulary application profile (CPSV-AP) and should help public administrations to align their catalogue of services.

Land Use / Cover Area Frame Survey 2022 (LUCAS 2022) consist of an area frame sampling survey to collect harmonized data on land cover/use and agro-environmental parameter; the survey covers all Member States. LUCAS contains the classifications for land cover (LC), land use (LU), forest types, linear and water features.

Eurostat website: Information on LUCAS 2022

Documentation

LUCAS 2022 (Land Use / Cover Area Frame Survey) Technical reference document C3 Classification (Land cover & Land Use)

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/205002/13686460/C3-LUCAS-2022.pdf

LUCAS 2022 is maintained by Eurostat and published the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides the list of main activities of the buyers.

The codes associated with contracting authorities are derived from the top level of the Classification of the functions of the government (COFOG) from the United Nations Statistics Division.

The codes associated with contracting entities are derived from sectors explicitly falling within the sectoral directive (2014/25/EU Art. 8 - Art. 14).

The Measurement unit authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing units of measurement with their authority codes. The labels and symbols are given in all official EU languages. If available, the codes are based on the code list recommendation N°. 20 "Codes for Units of Measure Used in International Trade" (as revised periodically) maintained and published by UNECE through its Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). Measurement unit is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Meeting authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that lists meetings that are described and/or required by interinstitutional procedures or the rules of procedure of an institutional stakeholder. It was created to provide canonical labels in 24 languages and a set of parametrized labels that serve as templates to be completed with actual metadata (e.g. number of the meeting, date of the meeting, corporate body holding the meeting) to form the title of a specific meeting instance. The Meeting AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The membership-classification authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of politico-economic units for classifying countries, localities or languages.  It focuses mainly on units with European relevance. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website). 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Methods of supervision and verification provides a list of possible means by which security of assessment can be assured, such as for example ID verification and/or activity supervision. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the list of codes indicating whether tenderer-related information (complete or partial) can be supplemented even after the submission deadline.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Modes of learning and assessment describes means by which learning and assessment can be carried out. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the main reasons for modifying a contract within the domain of public procurement.

The Modification type authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of modifications to a legal act resulting from the instructions in a modifying act or corrigendum. It is used by EUR-Lex and AKN4EU, among others. The Modification type AT provides an authority code and the start-use date for each concept. It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Multilingual authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with cataloguing purposes.

Its main scope is to support activities associated with publication process.

The concepts included are correlated with the need of the identification of different multilingual language combinations. 

The EU publications use two-character codes, the first two positions of the three-character authority code. The codes are alphanumeric in order to not confuse with ISO language codes that are strictly alphabetic.

The Multilingual authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Multilingual authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The nomenclature for the analysis and comparison of scientific programmes and budgets (NABS) is a functional classification for the analysis of public financing of research and development (R&D) on the basis of the socio-economic objectives pursued by the central governments or stated by them in drafting their budgets and programmes, as opposed to a breakdown by institutions or groups of institutions to which funds are allocated. It is mainly used for GBAORD (Government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D) and R&D statistics at international and national level. The NABS nomenclature was originally established in 1969 and earlier revisions were carried out in 1975, 1983, 1992 and recently in 2007.

NABS 2007 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The NUTS classification (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) is a hierarchical system for dividing up the economic territory of the EU and the UK. The NUTS 2024 compiles the versions 2010, 2013, 2016, 2021 and 2024 of the NUTS classification as well as the Statistical Regions for countries that do not belong to the EU such as candidate countries, potential candidates or countries belonging to the EFTA (European Free Trade Association).

Eurostat website: 

NUTS  - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - Background

NUTS  - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - History of NUTS

Statistical regions for EU Candidates and EFTA countries

NUTS 2024 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides the list of reasons of the buyer for not choosing a winner in the procurement procedure.

This table provides codes and values for the main reasons for not immediately publishing a notice within the context of public procurement.

The Notation type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing the list of notation types used in the EU Vocabularies authority tables as well as in the context of DCAT-AP (a specification based on W3C's Data Catalogue vocabulary). It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept. The Notation type table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides a list of public procurement notices  according to procurement legislation  published once a project is approved.

This table provides the codes linked to fix values within the context of public procurement.

This table provides the codes linked to the type of threshold values within the context of public procurement.

This table provides the codes linked to the type of weight values used in award criteria within the context of public procurement.

ESCO is the European multilingual classification of occupations, skills, competences and qualifications. The Occupations pillar is the part of the taxonomy that expands the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) providing a richer level of granularity. ISCO-08 provides the top four levels for the occupations pillar while ESCO occupations are located at level 5 and lower.

ESCO occupations are defined by one preferred term but include also a number of synonyms (non-preferred and hidden terms) that allow better identification of real occupations in the labour market in each of the ESCO languages. In addition to the identification terms, each occupation is thoroughly described including links to the relevant skills and competences.

The Publications Office of the EU has defined the Official Journal Electronic Exchange Protocol (OJEEP) to manage the data exchange between PlanJO, the production follow-up system for the Official Journal of the EU, and the contractors in charge of printing the Official Journal.

Multiple schemas are maintained by the Publications Office offering the necessary flexibility to cover all business requirements and at the same time the scalability to adapt easily to changing needs in the data exchange.

OJEEP manages the exchange of manuscripts, models, instructions, proofs, orders, etc.

The Publications Office of the EU has defined the Official Journal Electronic Exchange Protocol (OJEEP) to manage the data exchange between PlanJO, the production follow-up system for the Official Journal of the EU, and the contractors in charge of printing the Official Journal.

Multiple schemas are maintained by the Publications Office offering the necessary flexibility to cover all business requirements and at the same time the scalability to adapt easily to changing needs in the data exchange.

OJEEP manages the exchange of manuscripts, models, instructions, proofs, orders, etc.

Based on the Dublin Core metadata element set, the Publications Office of the EU has defined its own OP Core metadata element set. It consists of 16 elements that resources managed and published by the Publications Office through its OP Portal can and should contain. Extensions for specific domains, such as the legal or the general publications domains that go beyond the basic 16 OP Core metadata elements are being defined and will be published on the MDR website as soon as they are ready.

This table provides the list of the different  functions of the organisations in a procurement procedure.

This table provides the list of the different  sub-functions of the organisations in a procurement procedure.

The organisation-type authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the various types of organizations as used in the EU Whoiswho application. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website).

This table provides the broad geopolitical areas linked to the location of works and the place of performance or delivery within the context of public procurement.

This table provides the codes linked to the different values of permission and/or obligation. 

The Physical dimension authority table provides values describing the sizes of printing paper used or the actual physical size of a bibliographic item. The Physical dimension authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Place authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with the localities of the world. It provides authority codes that are based on UN/LOCODE codes. Place uses the classification (membership classification) and the authority codes of the Country authority table. Place also provides ISO 3166-2 codes, as well as geographical coordinates. The European capitals of culture are also included. The original name of each locality is indicated. The Corporate body authority table uses Place to identify the seat of each concept (LOC_id), and the Site authority table uses it to identify the location of each site (loc_code). Place is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs. Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU. Place is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Planned availability authority table is a controlled vocabulary specifying planned availability of DCAT-AP defined resources, namely distribution, dataset and data service. The list, originally included in the DCAT-AP standard as means to describe availability of DCAT distributions, is managed by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Planned availability authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

This table provides the function groups and grades of the staff employed by the European institutions, bodies or agencies. 

Officials and temporary agents are classed into function groups according to the nature of their duties: administrator (AD), assistant (AST), Secretary and clerk (AST/SC). 

- The AD function group comprises 12 grades corresponding to management, planning and research, scientific and linguistic functions;

- The AST function group comprises 11 grades which correspond to executive and technical functions;

- The AST/SC function group, comprises 6 grades which correspond to secretarial and clerical functions.

Contract staff is subdivided into four function groups corresponding to the duties to be performed. Each function group is subdivided into grades.

- Function group IV comprises grade 13 to 18 and preform administrative, advisory, linguistic and equivalent technical tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

- Function Group III comprises grade 8 to 12 and preform executive tasks, drafting, accountancy and other equivalent technical tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

- Function group II comprises grade 4 to 7 and preform clerical and secretarial tasks, office management and other equivalent tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

- Function group I comprises grade 1 to 3 and preform manual and administrative support service tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

The legal framework is provided in the Staff Regulations of Officials (EUSR), ANNEX 1 "Types of posts in each function group, as provided for in Article 5(4)" (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:01962R0031-20200101) and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (CEOS). The grading of Contract Agents and Auxiliary Contract Agents is regulated in Article 80(2) of the CEOS. 

This authority table provides the position status of the staff employed by the EU institutions, bodies or agencies as used in the EU Whoiswho. 

This authority table provides the list of possible types of position of the staff employed by the EU institutions, bodies or agencies. It has been developed specifically for the EU budget as Linked Open Data project.

The Procedure nature authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing a classification of procedures applicable to the adoption of legislation and other acts by the institutions of the European Union as defined by the treaties. It provides an authority code, the start-use date and a description for each concept. The Procedure nature authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Procedure phase authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing phases of various decisional processes. It was originally created for AKN4EU specifications concerning documents pertaining to the ordinary legislative procedure, but it can be used for other purposes in the future, as a reference for phases of procedures of all nature – non legislative, legislative, internal, interinstitutional and judicial. It is part of the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It provides an authority code and the start-use date and a definition of each concept. The Procedure phase authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the codes and values used for innovative works, supplies or services being bought.

This table provides a list of activities leading to the conclusion of public contracts used in public procurement according to the legislation.

PRODCOM List 2019-2020 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).

Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1933 of 6 November 2019 establishing the ‘Prodcom list’ of industrial products referred to in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91, OJ L 309, 29.11.2019, p. 1–263

Eurostat website: PRODCOM – Overview

PRODCOM List 2021 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).

Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1933 of 6 November 2019 establishing the `Prodcom list' of industrial products referred to in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91, OJ L 309, 29.11.2019, p. 1 -263.

Eurostat website: PRODCOM   - Overview

Documentation

European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics methodological manual for PRODCOM : 2021 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/812273

European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics user's manual for PRODCOM : 2021 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/473101

PRODCOM List 2021 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

PRODCOM List 2022 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 of 12 December 2022 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the coverage of the product classification, OJ L 336, 29.12.2022, p. 1 -221.

Eurostat website: PRODCOM - Overview

Documentation

European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics user's manual for PRODCOM : 2022 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2023, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/39767

PRODCOM List 2022 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

PRODCOM List 2023 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 of 12 December 2022 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the coverage of the product classification (Text with EEA relevance), C/2022/8915, OJ L 336, 29.12.2022, p. 1-221.

PRODCOM List 2023 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

PRODCOM List 2024 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).

Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 of 12 December 2022 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the coverage of the product classification (Text with EEA relevance), C/2022/8915, OJ L 336, 29.12.2022, p. 1-221.

PRODCOM List 2024 is maintained by Eurostat and disseminated by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Product form authority table provides the various product forms published at the Publications Office, mainly those related to the general publications (brochures, leaflets, …), and the EU Open Data Portal (ODP). The Product form authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Product status authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible statuses of a product.It has been developed specifically for the Linked Data Solutions (LDS) project. 

The Product status authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Product status authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

List of the production types and heading types is a code list used for classifying PRODCOM headings according to the combination of production types used that are reported for the product. The `Production type' indicates the concept of production.

Documentation

European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics methodological manual for PRODCOM : 2021 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/812273

European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics user's manual for PRODCOM : 2021 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/473101

List of the production types is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The public event type table defines public events that happen at a particular place and time, are organised by an agent for a particular purpose, and are of interest to a general audience. This definition excludes natural events such as earthquakes or hurricanes. The public event type table is a controlled vocabulary under governance of DG COMM and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Publication accessibility authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides a list of terms describing assistive features and/or adaptations to improve the accessibility of publications for particular needs of some audiences.  The list is managed by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Publication accessibility  authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Qualification information topics is a standard list of additional information topics that can be provided about a qualification, an agent or an accreditation. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Qualifications frameworks classify qualifications by level, based on learning outcomes. This classification reflects the content and profile of qualifications - that is, what the holder of a certificate or diploma is expected to know, understand, and be able to do. The development of national qualifications frameworks in Europe also reflects the Bologna process and the agreement to implement qualifications frameworks in the European higher education area (QF-EHEA) that are comparable and easier to understand. Qualifications Framework is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the list of relevant categories used to classify tenders or requests to participate received within the context of public procurement.

The Regularity authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides values for describing the publisher’s intention on the regularity of a given continuing resource. The concepts are based on MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data and MARC 21 codes are given as a mapping.

The Regularity authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the EU on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table describes the measures taken following a review.

This table describes when and whether a given requirement must be provided in a procedure.

This table provides the values used to indicate wether the participation in the procurement is reserved for specific organisations.

The Resource type authority table lists the different types of document (e.g. directive, regulation, etc.) used in the context of data exchange between the European institutions involved in the legal decision-making process. Set up in order to harmonise the various types of documents used by different systems and in the 'Core Metadata and Extension Metadata XML schemas' in particular, Resource type is part of the Core Metadata. Resource type is used together with the Event and Corporate body (Agent) authority tables: together, they define an event triggered by an agent that is associated with a resource type. The range of users has widened to include other users than only core metadata parties. Resource type is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC). It is maintained by the Publications Office of the EU and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table covers the list of organisations providing the review of a given procedure.

This table describes the decision made a review body.

The Role authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the roles of persons or entities relevant for the descriptive metadata used at the Publications Office and the core metadata used in the data exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision-making process. It is also used in EUR-Lex. Role provides an authority code and start-use date of each concept and labels in all official EU languages. Role is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC). It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Role qualifier is a code list that serves as a subset or refinement of the Role controlled vocabulary. This code list can be used as a pick list to refine the various roles of persons or entities in detail. The Role qualifier is updated on request and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Scoring authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing concepts that define the different scoring levels for the metadata quality assurance. It provides the name and definition of each concept. The table is based on a custom vocabulary of the European Data Portal. The Scoring authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Script authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with distinctive scripts.

Its main scope is to support activities associated with publication process.

The concepts included are correlated with the ISO 15924 international standard.

Each script is instantiated according to a writing system, described in writing-system authority table.

The Script authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Script authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The SDMX Glossary is an SDMX guideline containing concepts and related definitions that are useful for building and understanding data and metadata exchange arrangements based on the SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) ISO 17369 standard. It is recommended as a single entry point to a common SDMX terminology to be used in order to facilitate communication and understanding of the standard. In short, the overall message of the glossary is the following: if a term is used, then its precise meaning should correspond to the SDMX Glossary definition, and any reference to a particular phenomenon described in the SDMX Glossary should use the appropriate term.

This table provides the list of condictions that are concerned for evaluation purposes. In the domain of public procurement, selection criteria are normally based on a specific legal framework. This codelist is a subset of the ESPD codelist CriterionTaxonomy. 

The Semantic technology authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible technologies used in the semantic web.It has been developed specifically for the Linked Data Solutions (LDS) project. It uses the acronyms of the technologies as preferred labels as these technologies are more known by the acronyms than by their long labels. The concepts are linked to their respective standards, specifications or recommendations.

The Semantic technology authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Semantic technology authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Site authority table provides the sites occupied by the various EU institutions and bodies. Site is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

The list of ESCO skill pillar concept reusability levels consists of four concepts, which indicate how widely a particulary ESCO knowledge, skill or competence can be applied. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The ESCO skills pillar types, established by the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO), distinguish between two concepts, i.e. skill/competence and knowledge. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the values  linked to any social objective  promoted by the technical specifications, award criteria, selection criteria or contract performance conditions included in a procurement.

Standard goods classification for transport statistics 2007 (NST 2007) is a statistical nomenclature for the goods transported by four modes of transport: road, rail, inland waterways and sea, that takes account of the economic activity from which the goods originate. This means that each of its items is strongly interrelated with an item of the European Union Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) and statistical classification of economic activities (NACE).

Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1304/2007 of 7 November 2007 amending Council Directive 95/64/EC, Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, Regulations (EC) No 91/2003 and (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to the establishment of NST 2007 as the unique classification for transported goods in certain transport modes, OJ L 290, 8.11.2007, p. 14 -16.

Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications

NST 2007 is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

NACE Rev. 2 (Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community) is the classification of economic activities in the European Union (EU). It is the European version of ISIC (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities), Rev. 4, which is a global classification of economic activities maintained by the United Nations.

Legal basis:Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains, OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1 -39.

Eurostat website:NACE Rev. 2 - Overview

NACE Rev. 2 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The NACE classification of economic activities in the European Community is used for a wide variety of European statistics in the economic, social, environmental, and agricultural domains.

Since the last version of NACE Rev. 2 was published in 2006, the EU economy has evolved tremendously, leading to a need to update this classification. For the past few years, Eurostat has worked with its partners in the European Statistical System on this update, which has now entered into force. From 2025 onwards, European statistics will start being produced based on NACE Rev. 2.1.

Legal basis: Commision Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 December 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2, OJ L 19, 20.12.2023, p. 5 -42.

NACE Rev. 2.1 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

CPA 2.1 is the European version of the CPC 2.1 (Central Product Classifications of the United Nations) and with a structure based on NACE 2 according to the criterion of economic origin (and thus the definition of the economic activities).

Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1209/2014 of 29 October 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 Text with EEA relevance, OJ L 336, 22.11.2014, p. 1 -149.

CPA 2.1 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

CPA is the European version of the CPC (Central Product Classifications of the United Nations) and with a structure based on NACE 2 according to the criterion of economic origin (and thus the definition of the economic activities).

Legal basis: Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 65 -226.

CPA 2008 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides the information about whether a procurement aims to reduce environmental impact, fulfil social objectives and/or buy innovative works, supplies or services. These condictions are achived via either technical specifications, selection criteria, award criteria and contract terms.

This table provides the list of codes and values used to indicate information regarding the share of parts of a contract to third parties. The share may refer to the portion of work, services or supplies and/or to the subject matter being subcontracted.

This table provides the list of codes and values used for the obligation of the economic operator of sharing parts of the original contract to third parties. The share may refer to the portion of work, services or supplies.

The Subdivision authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing the subdivisions of acts used for legal citations. It also lists the parts of the corrigenda. Subdivision is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is used by Akoma Ntoso for EU, FORMEX, ELI and EUR-Lex for identifying divisions in a text. It provides an authority code and labels in all official EU languages. Subdivision is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC), maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Subdivision content authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing concepts that indicate specific content of text divisions. It was created by the Publications Office (OP) for the development of AKN4EU specifications, which concern documents exchanged between the EU Institutions involved in the legal decision making process and sent to OP for publication. It provides the name, authority code, start-use date and definition of each concept (English only). The Subdivision content AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Subdivision position authority table (AT) provides the possible positions in the subdivisions of acts with the respective authority codes. These positions are used for the consolidation of legislation. The Subdivision position authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Subject matter authority table is a controlled vocabulary showing the concepts used for the indexation of notices published on EUR-Lex. It has also been extended to cover concepts that provide the legal framework of the European Central Bank. Subject matter is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC), maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The subject matter classification exists in parallel with two other classifications: the Directory of European Union Legislation and EuroVoc. Differently from these, the subject matter classification is strictly aligned with the evolution of the European Union policies cited in the different treaties of the European Union that can be consulted at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/collection/eu-law/treaties.html?locale=en 

The European Waste Classification is a mainly substance-oriented classification of waste for statistical purposes, which distinguishes hazardous and non-hazardous waste. It is aggregated into 51 mainly substance orientated waste categories that provides criteria for the assessment and classification of hazardous waste and defines different types of waste by a six-digit code for the waste and the respective two-digit and four-digit chapter headings. The two digit chapter headings are partly oriented towards the origin of the waste. The EWC stat is orientated purely to material disaggregation into parts of this material.

Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) No 849/2010 of 27 September 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 253, 28.9.2010, p. 2 -41.

EWC-Stat Rev. 4 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Summaries of EU legislation classification authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the classification used in the summaries of EU legislation and introductory texts. The Summaries of EU legislation classification AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

List of supplementary units (SU) or volume physical units is a code list used respectively in CN and PRODCOM List.

For certain goods, a supplementary quantity is provided in addition to the net mass. This quantity is expressed in a unit, which provides useful information. Supplementary units are units other than kilograms such as, for example, litres, numbers of pieces, carats, terajoules or square metres. Supplementary unit varies according to the goods.

Supplementary units is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The 17 interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their related 169 targets, which are at the heart of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, provide a new policy framework worldwide towards ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities and tackling climate (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). The SDGs, set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and intended to be achieved by the year 2030, are part of a UN Resolution called the "2030 Agenda". The EU has committed to implement the Sustainable Development Goals both in its internal and external policies.

The UN developed a system of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) for Sustainable Development Goals, Targets, Indicators and related statistical series to support the development of a United Nations system-wide ecosystem of machine-readable data and documents based on Linked Open Data (LOD) principles.  The taxonomy is available to IT developers and the public at large under http://metadata.un.org/sdg/?lang=en. 

This authority table provides the target audiences used for the general publications.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Target groups describes learner groups that a learning opportunity, and corresponding credential, is tailored and/or best suited for. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The territorial typologies that have been developed by Eurostat can be split into three principal groups, covering grid-based typologies, local typologies based on LAUs (local administrative units) and regional typologies based on NUTS level 3 (the classification of territorial units for statistics).

• Grid typologies: Eurostat collects population statistics based on 1 km² grid cells. These very detailed statistics are used to establish various cluster types — namely, urban centres, urban clusters and rural grid cells.
• Local typologies: based on statistics for local administrative units (LAUs) which generally comprise municipalities or communes across the EU. Statistics for LAUs may be used to establish local typologies including the degree of urbanisation (cities; towns and suburbs; rural areas); functional urban areas (cities and their surrounding commuting zones); coastal areas (coastal and non-coastal areas).
• Regional typologies: statistics that are grouped according to the classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS); they provide information at a relatively aggregated level of detail, with data presented for NUTS level 1, level 2 and level 3 regions respectively, detailing larger to smaller territorial units. Only the most detailed statistics at NUTS level 3 are used as building blocks to establish the urban-rural typology (predominantly urban regions, intermediate regions and predominantly rural regions), the metropolitan typology (metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions), the coastal typology (coastal and non-coastal regions), each of which has a legislative basis.

Eurostat website: TERCET – TERRITORIAL TYPOLOGIES

The Time-period authority table is a controlled vocabulary which lists the periods of time in the 24 official languages of the EU. It enumerates the names of the seasons, months, weekdays and the main units of time when the issues are published. It also contains concepts for ‘unlimited’ or ‘unknown’ time periods.

The Time-period authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the EU and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides a list of transport services.

The Treaty authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing the different EU treaties, including treaties and protocols, accession treaties, Schengen Convention and Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Treaty AT is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision-making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is also used by EUR-Lex. It provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in all official EU languages. The Treaty AT is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on EU Vocabularies website. 

The  treaty-classification authority table   is a controlled vocabulary listing the types of treaties of the European Union and its predecessors. The table  provides an authority code and the start-use date of each concept.  The treaty-classification authority table is  maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website).

This table provides the list of codes and values indicating the application of criteria or other concepts and information.

The Use context authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing different applications and environments that make use of the various authority tables. This table is an internal table at the Publications Office of the European Union, and is maintained on the EU Vocabularies website.

The category of vehicle falling within the scope of Directive 2009/33/EC.

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of verifiable presentation types describes clearly distinguishable verifiable presentation categories of EDC-compliant credential data that credential holders can share with a verifier. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model list (ELM) of Verification statuses describes the potential outcomes of the digital credential authentication and verification checks. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Verification types describes different verification tests that can be run on a European Digital Credential for Learning. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Waste categories are defined on the basis of the statistical European Waste Classification (EWC-Stat), which is a substance-oriented nomenclature and which has been specially created for EU waste statistics. The 51 waste categories that must be reported in waste generation include 21 hazardous waste categories and 30 non-hazardous waste categories.

Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) No 849/2010 of 27 September 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 253, 28.9.2010, p. 2-41.

WASTE categories is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The website-identifier authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides a list of websites (URL) included in the europa.eu domain and subdomains. It has been developed specifically for the EU Web Preservation project, but will be used also for many other purposes. The table contains reference to copyright of the websites.

This table provides the list of codes and values used to indicate whether a tenderer was chosen to be awarded with a contract and whether the competition is open.