Statistical Terms Glossary

A partnership arrangement in which government and the legitimate interested parties in a fishery share the responsibility and authority for the management of a fishery.

Cybercrime is criminal activity done using computers and the Internet. This includes anything from downloading illegal music files to stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts. Cybercrime also includes non-monetary offenses, such as creating and distributing viruses on other computers or posting confidential business information on the Internet.

In the parlance of competition law and policy, the term combination refers to firms organized together to form a monopoly, cartel or agreement to raise or fix prices and restrict output in order to earn higher profits. This term has been interchangeably used with conspiracy and collusion as well.

Bank offering a full range of services.

A power plant in which a gas turbine produces power and the waste heat from the gas turbine exhaust is routed to a nearby steam turbine, which also generates power.

Intermodal transport of goods where the major part of the journey is by rail, inland waterway or sea and any initial and/or final leg carried out by road is as short as possible.

Are plants which are designed to produce both heat and electricity simultaneously.

Weighted average of five national money market rates that enter into the calculation of the SDR rate of interest.

In combined school and work-based programmes, instruction is shared between school and the workplace, although instruction may take place primarily in the workplace. Programmes are classified as combined school and work-based if less than 75 per cent of the curriculum is presented in the school environment or through distance education. Programmes that are more than 90 per cent work-based are excluded.

Security offered in a commercial loan in the form of a guarantee or cofinancing from a parent company, government, or international organization.

Comitology is a framework upon which the Community legislature generally relies when it designs the administrative process to be used in implementing legislation on statistics.

Command—and—control policy refers to environmental policy that relies on regulation (permission, prohibition, standard setting and enforcement) as opposed to financial incentives, that is, economic instruments of cost internalisation

The property that requires the results of a comparison to be invariant to changes in units of measurement for prices and quantities.

A test that may be used under the axiomatic approach which requires that the price index does not change when the physical, or quantity, units to which the prices of the goods or services refer are changed: for example, when the price of some drink is quoted per litre rather than per pint.

An air transport flight performed for the public transport of passengers and/or freight and mail, for remuneration and for hire.

An air transport flight or series of flights for the public transport of passengers and/or freight and mail, for remuneration or for hire.

Any movement of goods and/or passengers on a commercial aircraft movement.

An aircraft movement performed for remuneration or for hire.

Shows whether exports or imports of fishing products are higher in a given country.

A bank that normally specializes in demand deposits and commercial loans.

See commercial paper.

A motor vehicle designed for another purpose than passenger transport, weights more than 2200 kg, its height is more than 175 cm and less than or equal to 250 cm, and described in its license as a commercial vehicle.

Commercial confidentiality refers to safeguarding the privacy of sensitive information of individual firms (such as market position, financial health, or whether the firm is receiving financial support). Commercial confidentiality can help to promote the full and free disclosure of pertinent information to official agencies by financial firms, and ensures the fair and equal treatment of all firms.

In the context of the Paris Club, loans originally extended on terms that do not qualify as official development assistance (ODA) credits. These are typically export credits on market terms but also include other non-ODA loans by governments.

Farmers that produce agricultural products intended for the market to be delivered, sold or stored at commercial structures and/or sold to end consumers (feedlots, poultry farms, dairies, etc.), fellow farmers and direct exports. They generally use high levels of inputs.

The harvesting of seafood products, either in whole or in part, for sale, barter or trade.

An aircraft flight performed for the public transport of passengers and/or freight and mail, for remuneration or for hire.