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Accession negotiations	Additionality
Audit authority	Budget
Certifying authority	Co-financing rate
Cohesion fund	Cohesion policy
Cohesion report	Committee of the Regions
Control and audit	Coordination Committee for the European Structural and Investment Funds
Decommitment	ESPON (European Spatial Planning Observation Network)
EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation 2014 – 2020 (PEACE)	EU Solidarity Fund
Economic and social cohesion	Eligibility of expenditure
Employment	Enlargement
Environment	Equal opportunities
Europe 2020 Strategy	European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
European Code of Conduct on Partnership	European Employment Strategy (EES)
European Groupings for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC)	European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI)	European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
European Social Fund (ESF)	European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF)
Evaluation	Ex ante conditionalities
Financial corrections	Financial instruments
Fraud	Global grants
INTERACT	INTERREG EUROPE
Information and publicity	Innovation
Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)	Interregional cooperation
Managing authority	Monitoring
Monitoring committee	Mountain areas
N+2	NUTS
Northern Ireland Task Force	Operational programme
Outermost regions	Partnership
Partnership Agreement (PA)	Payments
Performance Framework	Programming
Proportionality	Recovery of funds
RegioStars awards	Regional Competitiveness and Employment Objective
Regions for Economic Change	Regulations
Shared management	State aid
Subsidiarity	Sustainable development
Technical assistance	Territorial cohesion
Thematic objectives	Trans-European Networks (TENs)
Transnational cooperation	Transport
URBACT - Urban Development network programme