| ASSI | Area of Special Scientific Interest (Northern Ireland)
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| BAP | Biodiversity Action Plan
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| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy
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| CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity
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| CCW | Countryside Council for Wales
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| CEECs | Central and Eastern European Countries
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| CLA | Country Landowners' Association
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| DETR | Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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| DG | Directorate-General (e.g. of the European Commission)
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| EEA | European Environment Agency
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| ETCNC | European Topic Centre on Nature Conservation
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| IEEP | Institute for European Environmental Policy
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| JNCC | Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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| LIFE | Financial Instrument for the Environment (see paragraphs 5961)
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| MAFF | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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| Natura 2000 | EU network of Sites of Community Importance
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| NGO | Non-governmental organisation
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| NIS | New Independent States (former USSR, excluding the Baltic States)
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| Objective 1 | Assistance to underdeveloped regions of the EU; one of the five objectives of the Structural Funds (applicable up to the end of 1999)[50]
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| Phare | EU programme of technical assistance to the CEECs (qv)
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| REPS | Rural Environment Protection Scheme (Ireland)
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| RSPB | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
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| SAC | Special Area of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
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| SCI | Site of Community Importance
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| SPA | Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
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| SSSI | Site of Special Scientific Interest
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| Tacis | EU programme of technical assistance to the NIS (qv) and Mongolia (originally an acronym for "Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States")
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| WWF | World Wide Fund for Nature
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