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TBT - Technical Barriers to Trade
TEC - Transatlantic Economic Council (forum/body which promotes economic dialog between the United States and the European Union (EU))
TEC - Treaty Establishing the European Community (or EC Treaty) (one of two treaties signed as part of the Maastricht Treaty (1992, effective 1993) - renamed the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) by the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 )
TEN - Trans-European Network (system or systems of projects aimed at integrating the transport, energy supply, and telecommunications systems of the EU member states)
TEU - Treaty on European Union (name given to the 1993 Maastricht Treaty by the 1009 Lisbon Treaty
- after the Maastricht Treaty, the European Economic Community (EEC) had been named the European Community (EC) and the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 had retroactivly re-named the European Community the European Union (EU))
TFEU - Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (treaty established by the Lisbon Treaty in December 2009 which renamed the EC Treaty of Maastricht (1993) or (The Treaty Establishing the European Community (TEC))
TFRA - Task Force for Administrative Reform (body set up in October 1999 to recommend administrative reforms of the European Commission)
TINA - There Is No Alternative
TLTROs - Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (loans to banks over a timeframe of up to four years at favorable terms on condition that the beneficiary institutions use the funds to provide credit to the real economy)
TM - Trademark (distinctive name, symbol, motto, or emblem that identifies a product, service, or firm)
TMD - Trade Mark Directive
TPM - technology protection measure (any technology that can block or filter objectionable content - used in the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) of 2000)
Trevi - Terrorism, Radicalism, Extremism, Political Violence (EU inter-governmental network of national officials set up in 1975 to deal with terrorism and later expanded to deal with crime control and public order matters)
TRIPs - Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement
TSCG - Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (Fiscal Compact) (agreement signed by twenty-five contracting states of the EU in March 2012 which contained a 'balanced budget' rule requiring state budgets to be balanced or in surplus)
TTIP - Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
TWG - Technical Working Group (EU process used in the environmental area involving meetings of representatives of the member states, industries concerned, and non-governmental organizations to address environmental issues and to explore possible solutions)