EuroVoc

EuroVoc is a multilingual thesaurus (controlled vocabulary) maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and hosted on the portal Europa. It exists in the 24 official languages of the European Union (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish) plus Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian, although the user interface is not yet available in these languages.

Usage

EuroVoc is used by the European Parliament, the Publications Office of the European Union, the national and regional parliaments in Europe, some national government departments, and other European organisations. It serves as the basis for the domain names used in the European Union's terminology database: Interactive Terminology for Europe.^{[citation needed]}

As an example, EuroVoc is used to technogically maintain a single consistent definition of European geographical divisions across several languages suitable for the work of the EU, as Europe is often divided into regions several different ways across different contexts.

Geographical classification

Europe is often geographically divided into regions in several different contexts with varying criteria, and so for consistency across contexts and languages, EuroVoc defines the geographical sub-regions of Europe as:^[1]

Central and Eastern Europe^[2]

Albania
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Croatia
Georgia
Hungary
Kosovo
Moldova
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine

References

^ ^a ^b "7206 Europe: Concept Scheme". EuroVoc. Publications Office of the EU. Retrieved 29 Jan 2023 – via Europa.
^ "Concept: 914 Central and Eastern Europe". EuroVoc. Publications Office of the EU. Retrieved 29 Jan 2023.
^ "Concept: 911 Northern Europe". EuroVoc. Publications Office of the EU. Retrieved 29 Jan 2023.
^ "Concept: 912 Southern Europe". EuroVoc. Publications Office of the EU. Retrieved 29 Jan 2023.
^ "Concept: 913 Western Europe". EuroVoc. Publications Office of the EU. Retrieved 29 Jan 2023.

External links

EuroVoc on the Europa web portal
Eurovoc on EUR-Lex

European Union articles

History

Timeline

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Founders
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1993–2004
Since 2004

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