Glossary

Automobile Club d'Italia ? Italian Automobile Club

Active ingredients are the substances in a commercial product which cause the desired effect on target organisms (fungi, weeds, pests, etc?).

An activity is said to take place when resources such as equipment, labour, manufacturing techniques, information networks or products are combined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. An activity is characterised by an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products.

corresponds to the total expenditure of households for the purchase of a good (or service) divided by the number of households that purchased the good (or service).

The term adoption may have different juridical meanings. The Italian legislation sets that, as a rule, minors can be adopted only by married couples. It also sets that persons aged over 18 can be adopted.

Is the technical-economic unit constituted principally by land (and, sometimes, by equipment) where agrarian activity is carried out. Agrarian activity comprises agriculture, forestry and animal farming. The agricultural holding may be run a natural or a juridical person, solely or in collaboration with sharecroppers.

Accommodation establishments located in agricultural holdings

The allocation of primary income account concerns the resident units and institutional sectors as recipients rather than producers of primary income. "Primary income" is the income which resident units receive by virtue of their direct participation in the production process, and the income receivable by the owner of a financial asset or a tangible non-produced asset in return for providing funds to, or putting the tangible non-produced asset at the disposal of, another institutional unit. The allocation of primary income account can be calculated only for the institutional sectors and sub-sectors because, in the case of industries, it is impossible to break down certain flows connected with financing (capital loans and borrowings) and assets. The allocation of primary income account is broken down into an entrepreneurial income account and an allocation of other primary income account.

Request for the judicial review by a superior court of the decision of a lower tribunal.

Apprentices are workers who do not yet fully participate in the production process and work either under an apprenticeship contract or in a situation in which vocational training predominates over productivity. According to the Italian legislation apprentices are not employees in the strict sense. However, from the viewpoint of statistics, they are often included in this category.

Areas producing seeds and seedlings for sale, excluding cereals, rice, pulses, potatoes and oil seeds.

In broad terms, inward flows to one Member State from another are known as arrivals.Arrivals in a given Member State include:a) goods in free circulation which enter the statistical territory of the Member State;b) goods which have been placed under the customs procedure for inward processing or processing under customs control (for processing, transformation or repair) in another Member State and which enter the statistical territory of the Member State in question;c) Some movements of goods are included in Eurostat statistics according to specific rules. In particular, ships and aircraft are included in arrivals of a given Member State when ownership is being transferred from a person resident in another Member State to a person resident in the Member State in question.

Electromechanical device allowing authorised cardholders, typically using machine-readable plastic cards, to withdraw cash from their accounts and/or access to other services, such as balance enquiries, transfer of funds or acceptance of deposits. A device allowing only balance enquiries does not qualify as an ATM.

Allowance paid to insured or retired persons who, do to disability or sickness, are not able to perform daily life activities without the continuous assistance of another person.

Person or entity who created a work or is responsible for its intellectual content.

Sum of the total areas of dwellings divided by the number of dwellings.