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  • Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) - (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)

  • Task Force for Administrative Reform (TFRA) - (body set up in October 1999 to recommend administrative reforms of the European Commission)

  • Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) - (Regulations or interpretations of law, other than specific legislative language, that tend to act as barriers to trade activities.)

  • Technical Working Group (TWG) - (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)

  • technology protection measure (TPM) - (any technology that can block or filter objectionable content - used in the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) of 2000)

  • Terrorism, Radicalism, Extremism, Political Violence (Trevi) - (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)

  • There Is No Alternative (TINA) -

  • Trade Mark Directive (TMD) -

  • Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) -

  • Trademark (TM) - (distinctive name, symbol, motto, or emblem that identifies a product, service, or firm)

  • Trans-European Network (TEN) - (system or systems of projects aimed at integrating the transport, energy supply, and telecommunications systems of the EU member states)

  • Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) - (forum/body which promotes economic dialog between the United States and the European Union (EU))

  • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) -

  • Treaty Establishing the European Community (or EC Treaty) (TEC) - (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 )

  • Treaty on European Union (TEU) - (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))

  • Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) - (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))

  • Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (Fiscal Compact) (TSCG) - (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)