Glossary

Common Agricultural Policy

Are made mainly to finance investment expenses or other forms of accumulation, their objective it to re-distribute saving and wealth. They comprise: taxes on capital, contributions to investments, other capital transfers.

Is a wholesale outlet that has a sales area in excess of 400 m2 where clients pay cash against invoice, and are responsible for the transport of the goods purchased.

Changes in inventories are measured by the value of the entries into inventories less the value of withdrawals and the value of any recurrent losses of goods held in inventories.

A place designed for the exhibition of films. Cultural statistics refer to cinemas that are open for more than 60 days per year.

Allowance paid to persons aged between 18 and 65 years whose working capability is lower than 100% (but greater than 73%). The benefits is granted to all Italian and EU citizens and to refugees resident in Italy.

Proceeding aimed at obtaining, from the Judge, a measure to ensure that a person's rights are maintained while awaiting for the judgement of the rights themselves.

Production of a book with the contribution of more than one publisher.

A group of persons that are not bound by marriage, relationship, kinship, etc., who are resident in the same commune and live together for religious, health-care, military or other reasons. Persons living in co-habitation due to employment or work reasons are to be considered as co-habitants, provided that such group is not an independent household. Temporary members of co-habitations are those persons who are temporarily (or occasionally) present at the co-habitation (e.g. guests in hotels, prisoners doing sentences lower than 5 years, etc.).

Classification of Individual (final) Consumption by Purpose (households)

Accommodation establishment that provides overnight lodging for the traveller in a room or some other unit, but the number of places it provides must be greater than a specified minimum for groups of persons exceeding a single family unit and all the places in the establishment must come under a common commercial-type management, even if it is non-profit-making. They include hotels and similar establishments, specialised establishments, other establishments.

Intermodal transport where the major part of the European journey is by rail, inland waterways or sea and any initial and/or final legs carried out by road are as short as possible.

Compensation of employees is defined as the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee in return for work done by the latter during the accounting period.Compensation of employees is broken down into:a) wages and salaries: wages and salaries in cash; wages and salaries in kind;b) employers' social contributions: employers' actual social contributions; employers' imputed social contributions.

Biological process that submits biodegradable waste to anaerobic or aerobic decomposition, and that results in a product that is recovered.

relation between the active principles and the quantity of product that contains them.

Final consumption represents the value of goods and services intended for persons' needs; which may be individual (households' final consumption) or collective (public consumption, that is, of the Public Administration and of privately owned social institutions). Households' final consumption comprises goods and services that are normally used by the households themselves: food products, clothing, house equipment, rent, domestic services, health services and other marketable services. Public consumption comprises non-marketable services that are provided by the Public Administration and privately owned social institutions to the population as a whole. It is not possible do determine exactly the value of the services provided to every single person. These services are classified into: - final domestic consumption: when made in the economic territory of the Country by resident and non-resident units; - final national consumption: when made in the economic territory of the Country and abroad by resident units.

Intermediate consumption represents the value of all the goods and services provided by productive units to other productive units, with the aim to produce other goods and services. Capital goods are not included.

Contributions are those payments (unsecuritised), made by the Public Administration or by the rest of the world, that are intended to finance (totally or in part) specific gross investments carried out by other units.

Fuel oil, coal and natural gas

Production of a book with the participation of one publisher and or more enterprises not belonging to the publishing sector.

Is based in Rome and constitutes the supreme advisory organ as concerns legislation and issues of all kinds. Is competent for decisions on appeals concerning: lack of jurisdiction, excess of power, law infringements, measures taken by Administrative Authorities.

In the case of extra-EU trade, 'country of destination' means the last country to which it is known, at the time of export, that the goods are to be delivered.

Country of origin' shall mean the country where the goods originate. Goods which are entirely obtained in a country originate in that country. An item in the production of which two or more countries are involved originates in the country where the last significant processing or working, economically justified and carried out in an enterprise equipped for this purpose and leading to the manufacture of a new product or representing an important stage of manufacture, takes place.

Is based in Rome, and there is a sole Court for the whole Italian State. The Court of Cassation comprises six sections: three are competent in civil law and three in criminal law.Is competent on appeals against judgements made in appeal or non-appealable judgements in the first degree.The Court of Cassation is the supreme organ of the justice system, and assures the observance of law and its correct interpretation, the respect of the limits of the various jurisdictions.

Banks, leasing, facotring and credit companies registered in the Special Register (art. 107 of the Italian Banking Code)

Comprises all actions aimed at verifying and confirming criminal responsibility relating to a given behaviour that is considered a crime.

Crop rotation is the practice of alternating annual crops grown on a specific field in a planned pattern or sequence in successive crop years so that crops of the same species are not grown without interruption on the same field. Normally the crops are changed annually, but they can also be multiannual. To distinguish arable land from permanent crops or permanent grassland, a threshold of five years is used. This means that if a plot is used for the same crop for five years or more, without in the meantime removing the preceding crop and establishing a new one, it is not considered arable land.

Current operating income is a term based on company accounting concepts. It is the sum of all current income relating to operating activities. Using the standard presentation of a profit and loss account laid down in Article 23 of the Fourth Council Directive on the annual accounts of certain types of companies, this is made up of:- Net turnover;- Variation in stock of finished goods and work in progress;- Work performed by the undertaking for its own purposes and capitalised;- Other operating income.

Are aimed mainly at re-distributing income. They include: current taxes on income and property, social contributions, social benefits, other current transfers

Comprises companies supplying electricity, wholesalers, and final consumers.