| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| CDS | Catalogue of Data Sources |
| CEDAR | Central European Environmental Data Request Facility |
| CEN | European Standards Organisation |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| EEA | European Environment Agency |
| EEA-TDB | Terminology Database of the European Environment Agency |
| EIONET | European Information and Observation Network |
| ELRA | European Language Resource Association |
| ETC/CDS | European Topic Centre for Catalogue of Data Sources |
| EU | European Union |
| EURODICAUTOM | the multilingual online dictionary of the Translation Services of the EC |
| DIS | Draft International Standard |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technologies |
| IITF | International Institute for Terminology Research |
| IKR | Information and Knowledge Representation |
| IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| ISEP | International Society for Environmental Protection |
| ISO | International Standards Organisation |
| NFP | National Focal Point |
| OCG | Austrian Computer Society |
| POINTER | Proposals for an Operational Infrastructure for Terminology in Europe |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| TDB | Terminology Database |
| TERMIUM | Linguistic Databank of the Government of Canada |
| UBA | Umweltbundesamt (in Berlin) |
| UDC | Universal Decimal Classification |
| UDK | Umweltdatenkatalog |
| UN | United Nations |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation |
| WWW | World Wide Web |