Authority tables 

The access-right authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the access rights or restrictions to resources. It is designed for but not limited to DCAT descriptions of datasets. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides a list of options for the use of accessibility criteria for person with disabilities in the technical specifications within the domain of public procurement.

The Europass Accreditation status with its list of accreditation statuses allows the determination of whether the accreditation status of an institution / programme is settled, pending review, obsolete, etc. It is part of the Europass vocabularies. It is part of the Europass vocabularies that set out a framework developed to support the transparency and understanding of skills and qualifications. The Europass Accreditation status is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Address type authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that provides the address types as used in the EU Whoiswho application. The AT gives the authority code and the English label for each concept. The Address type AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Administrative territorial unit (ATU) authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with various administrative territorial units of current and past EU Member States.

An administrative territorial unit is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration. Due to the large volume of lowest level administrative units (local authority, municipality) in certain countries, these units have not yet been fully implemented. The ATU authority table is structured by countries and contains labels in the official language(s) of the concerned country and in English.

The classification of each territorial unit can be found in the related Administrative territorial unit type authority table. 

The ATU authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The ATU authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides a list of the options pertinent to be chosen for a matter concerning the applicability of predefined fields. It is designed for but not restricted to the context of public procurement.

This classification is intended for organising knowledge organisation system (KOS) assets published by the Publications Office of the European Union ranging from controlled lists, terminologies, thesauri, models, markup schemas, ontologies and authoritative assets and other kinds of resources. The assets types are classified by their main function, being classification, sematic or data modelling, handling authoritative data, e.g.The Asset classification authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the EU on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides a list of the the type of procuring authorities within the domain of public procurement according to legislation.

The COM internal event authority table is a technical table for the internal use of the European Commission. It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Technical table for the internal use of the European Commission.

This table provides the codes and values used in case of justification of correcions applied to a notice within the context of public procurement.

The continent authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of continents. This table is an internal table at the Publications Office of the European Union derived from the country authority table.

This table provides a framework to represent data relating to procurement.

This table provides a list of different types of subjects and goods that  can be acquired by means of a public contract such as works, supplies and services by one or more contracting authorities from economic operators.

The Corporate body authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the varying names of EU corporate bodies for a given time span. Some other – international and national – corporate bodies are also included as far as they are used in the various systems in the Publications Office. The traceability of the chronological modifications is ensured when possible. 

The Corporate body authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The corporate-body-classification authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing types of corporate bodies. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website). 

The Country authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with names of countries and territories.

Its main scope is to support documentary metadata activities.

The concepts included are correlated with the ISO 3166 international standard. ISO 3166-1 contains a two-letter code which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code which has better mnenomic properties and a numeric-3 code which can be useful if script independence of the codes is important. The authority code relies on the ISO 3166-1/alpha-3 positions. If an authority code is needed for a country without assigned ISO code, an alphanumeric code is created in order to not confuse with ISO codes that are strictly alphabetic or numeric.

A country code comparison is provided between ISO codes, IANA codes (Internet Country-code Top-level Domains) and TIR (Transport International par la Route) Vehicle system codes.

The Country authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Country authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Court type authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the classification of EU courts as well as the general three-level classification of national courts. It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept and gives labels in all official EU languages. The Court type AT is updated in coordination with the Court of Justice of the European Union and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Europass Standard List of Credential types is a multilingual authority file. It contains a centrally devised list of customised credential profiles that issuing organisations can choose from to describe their credentials that correspond to that profile. It is part of the Europass vocabularies that set out a framework developed to support the transparency and understanding of skills and qualifications. The Europass Standard List of Credential types is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides criteria used for public procurement procedures.

The Currency authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with currencies and currency subunits.

The concepts included are correlated with the ISO 4217 international standard.

The Currency authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Currency authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides a list of customer services.

The Data service type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible types of data services.It has been developed specifically for the Linked Data Solutions (LDS) project. 

The Data service type authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Data service type authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Dataset status authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible statuses for datasets. It has been developed specifically for the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Dataset type authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with types of datasets.

Its main scope is to support dataset categorisation of the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’.

The Dataset type authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Dataset type authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides the list of reasons for using a procedure which allows awarding contracts directly without the requirement of publishing a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The Directory of EU legal acts authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that contains the directories of EU legislation (Directory of European Union legislation, Directory of European Union preparatory acts, Directory of international agreements and Directory of European Union consolidated acts) which facilitate the access to EU legislation by subject. The directory of EU legal acts is structured into 20 chapters with divisions into further sub-sections as necessary. The Directory of EU legal acts AT is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept and gives labels in all official EU languages. The Directory of EU legal acts AT is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

Directory of legal acts is accessible at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/browse/directories/legislation.html

The Distribution type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible distribution types. It has been developed specifically for the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’. 

The Distribution type authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Distribution type authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Document identifier format authority file describes the standardised syntax of the identifiers of documents produced by the institutions of the European Union in particular. This authority file was created to be used by metadata in the AKN4EU mark-up language. It provides for each identifier marked a mapping with a standardised syntax with a decomposition into the subcomponents and for each subcomponent a meaning depending on the type of identifier. Each institution can have its own naming convention and is allowed to map it according to its own naming convention inside the text.

The Document identifier format authority file is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on EU Vocabularies website.

The Documentation type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible documentation types. It has been developed specifically for the official portal for European data ‘data.europa.eu’. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This authority table provides possible statuses for amounts in the EU budget. It has been developed specifically for the EU budget as Linked Open Data project.

This authority table provides possible stages of the EU budget preparatory actions and pilot projects. It has been developed specifically for the EU budget as Linked Open Data project.

The EU programme authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the list of programmes created and coordinated by the European Union and financially supported by the European Union or, in a few cases, by the contributions from the Member States. It has been developed specifically for the EU Budget as open linked data project. It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept and gives labels in all official EU languages. The EU programme AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table identifies the role of the economic operator in the procurement.

This table provides the different categories in which the tenderers to whom a contract can be awarded are classified, according to their size (using as criteria the number of employees).

The European Qualification Framework authority file details the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (2008/C 111/01). This framework is a common European reference framework whose purpose is to make qualifications more readable and understandable across different countries and systems. It consists of 8 levels defined in terms of learning outcomes: knowledge, skills and autonomy-responsibility. It is part of ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations), i.e. the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. The European Qualification Framework authority file is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Event authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing the events that are part of the legal decision making process. It was created in order to harmonize and to trace historically the various events triggered by an agent within the procedures and associated to a resource type. The various sources of information were extracted from Pegase and Prelex. The Event AT is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is also used by EUR-Lex. It provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in all official EU languages. Codes in italic are deprecated and should not be used, except in the case of back-log work. The Event AT is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The File status authority table is a controlled vocabulary that describes the different stages in the life cycle of an act (or in the decision-making process of an act) from the moment it is launched until the final step is completed. It was created to fulfil the needs of EUR-Lex. The table provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in English. The File status authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website).

The File type authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the different types of (digital) files (e.g. PDF, XML, DOC, ...). The File type authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the codes and values used for the type of forms published on TED. 

• Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union (1-7-2013) : http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-10/staut_cons_en.pdf
• Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice (18-6-2013): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-10/rp_en.pdf
• Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1-7-2013):http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2008-09/txt7_2008-09-25_14-08-6_431.pdf
• Rules of Procedure of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (1-7-2011): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-04/rp_14_04_2010_en.pdf

The grammatical-gender authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the list of the grammatical genders in languages which have gender distinctions: "male", "female", "neuter" or "utrum".

The grammatical-gender authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The grammatical-gender authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The grammatical-number authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides the list of the grammatical numbers referring to different number of things or persons: "singular", "dual" or "plural".

The grammatical-number authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The grammatical-number authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Human sex authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing the list of human sexes. The Human sex authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Interinstitutional procedure authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing the different procedures used in the context of data exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision-making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in all official EU languages. The Interinstitutional procedure authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This code list refers generally to the types of irregularities described in Section 2 of the Annex to the Commission Decision C(2019) 3452.

The label-type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing the various forms of labels that are considered alternative labels in the SKOS format. This authority table is an internal table at the Publications Office of the European Union.

It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Language authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with languages.

Its main scope is to support activities associated with publication process.

The concepts included are correlated with the ISO 639 international standard. This standard is issued in several parts:

ISO 639-1 contains strictly two alphabetic letters (alpha-2),

ISO 639-2/B (B = bibliographic) is used for bibliographic purpose (alpha-3),

ISO 639-2/T (T = terminology) is used for technical purpose (alpha-3),

ISO 639-3 covers all the languages and macro-languages of the world (alpha-3); the values are compliant with ISO 639-2/T.

If an authority code is needed for a language without assigned ISO code, an alphanumeric code is created in order to not confuse with ISO codes that are strictly alphabetic.

Contributions to the Language authority table are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Language authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Europass Learning opportunity information topics is a standard list of additional information topics that can be supplied about a learning opportunity and its provider. It is part of the Europass vocabularies that set out a framework developed to support the transparency and understanding of skills and qualifications. The Europass Learning opportunity information topics is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Legal act domain authority file lists the various abbreviations of domains such as EC, EU, Euratom and CFSP, representing the sphere of action of the European Union and its predecessors, and used for numbering of EU legal acts. These domains have changed over the years as new treaties and amendments to the Treaties have been adopted. This authority file was created to be used by EUR-Lex and Cellar. It provides an authority code, the start date and end date, if applicable, of each domain and labels in all official EU languages. 

The Legal act domain authority file is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the legal basis  based on the legal acts  used for a given public procurement procedure. The table is provided by the Publications Office.

The Legal proceeding authority table (AT) presents concepts relating to different legal remedies available to an applicant before the EU Courts (Articles 260, 263, 268 and 270 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union). The Legal proceeding AT is used together with the Legal proceeding result (procresult) AT. The Legal proceeding AT provides an authority code and the start-use date of each concept and labels in all official EU languages. The concepts are used for the production of reports of cases before the Court and to publish the case-law on the EUR-Lex site. The Legal proceeding AT is used in an IMMC extension for which only one institution is the source (Court of Justice). It is updated in coordination with the Court of Justice of the European Union and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

• Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice (18-6-2013): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-10/rp_en.pdf
• Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1-7-2013): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2008-09/txt7_2008-09-25_14-08-6_431.pdf
• Rules of Procedure of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (1-7-2011): http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-04/rp_14_04_2010_en.pdf

The Licence authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing the European Commission Reuse Notice and the European Union Public Licences. It also provides a list of standard licences available internationally, including the Creative Commons licences. It gives an authority code and labels in most official EU languages. The Licence AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Licence domain authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of domains. All values are used for encoding the classification of licences in the Licence AT. The Licence domain AT is thus a technical authority table. It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the list of main activities of the buyers.

The codes associated with contracting authorities are derived from the top level of the Classification of the functions of the government (COFOG) from the United Nations Statistics Division.

The codes associated with contracting entities are derived from sectors explicitly falling within the sectoral directive (2014/25/EU Art. 8 - Art. 14).

The Measurement unit authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing units of measurement with their authority codes. The labels and symbols are given in all official EU languages. If available, the codes are based on the code list recommendation N°. 20 "Codes for Units of Measure Used in International Trade" (as revised periodically) maintained and published by UNECE through its Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). The Measurement unit authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The membership-classification authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of politico-economic units for classifying countries, localities or languages.  It focuses mainly on units with European relevance. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website). 

This table provides the main reasons for modifying a contract within the domain of public procurement.

The Modification type authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing a list of modifications to a legal act resulting from the instructions in a modifying act or corrigendum. It is used by EUR-Lex and AKN4EU, among others. The Modification type AT provides an authority code and the start-use date for each concept. It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Multilingual authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with cataloguing purposes.

Its main scope is to support activities associated with publication process.

The concepts included are correlated with the need of the identification of different multilingual language combinations. 

The EU publications use two-character codes, the first two positions of the three-character authority code. The codes are alphanumeric in order to not confuse with ISO language codes that are strictly alphabetic.

The Multilingual authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Multilingual authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table provides the list of reasons of the buyer for not choosing a winner in the procurement procedure.

The Notation type authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing the list of notation types used in the EU Vocabularies authority tables as well as in the context of DCAT-AP (a specification based on W3C's Data Catalogue vocabulary). It indicates the authority code and start-use date of each concept. The Notation type table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides a list of public procurement notices  according to procurement legislation  published once a project is approved.

This table provides the list of the different  functions of the organisations in a procurement procedure.

This table provides the list of the different  sub-functions of the organisations in a procurement procedure.

The organisation-type authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the various types of organizations as used in the EU Whoiswho application. This authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website).

The Place authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with the localities of the world. It provides authority codes that are based on UN/LOCODE codes. The Place AT uses the classification (membership classification) and the authority codes of the Country AT. This AT also provides ISO 3166-2 codes, as well as geographical coordinates. The European capitals of culture are also included. The original name of each locality is indicated. The Corporate body AT uses this AT to identify the seat of each concept (LOC_id), and the Site AT uses it to identify the location of each site (loc_code). The Place authority table is updated based on the stakeholders’ needs. Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU. The Place AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Planned availability authority table is a controlled vocabulary specifying planned availability of DCAT-AP defined resources, namely distribution, dataset and data service. The list, originally included in the DCAT-AP standard as means to describe availability of DCAT distributions, is managed by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Planned availability authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

This table provides the function groups and grades of the staff employed by the European institutions, bodies or agencies. 

Officials and temporary agents are classed into function groups according to the nature of their duties: administrator (AD), assistant (AST), Secretary and clerk (AST/SC). 

- The AD function group comprises 12 grades corresponding to management, planning and research, scientific and linguistic functions;

- The AST function group comprises 11 grades which correspond to executive and technical functions;

- The AST/SC function group, comprises 6 grades which correspond to secretarial and clerical functions.

Contract staff is subdivided into four function groups corresponding to the duties to be performed. Each function group is subdivided into grades.

- Function group IV comprises grade 13 to 18 and preform administrative, advisory, linguistic and equivalent technical tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

- Function Group III comprises grade 8 to 12 and preform executive tasks, drafting, accountancy and other equivalent technical tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

- Function group II comprises grade 4 to 7 and preform clerical and secretarial tasks, office management and other equivalent tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

- Function group I comprises grade 1 to 3 and preform manual and administrative support service tasks, performed under the supervision of officials or temporary staff.

The legal framework is provided in the Staff Regulations of Officials (EUSR), ANNEX 1 "Types of posts in each function group, as provided for in Article 5(4)" (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:01962R0031-20200101) and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (CEOS). The grading of Contract Agents and Auxiliary Contract Agents is regulated in Article 80(2) of the CEOS. 

This authority table provides the position status of the staff employed by the EU institutions, bodies or agencies as used in the EU Whoiswho. 

This authority table provides the list of possible types of position of the staff employed by the EU institutions, bodies or agencies. It has been developed specifically for the EU budget as Linked Open Data project.

The Procedure nature authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing a classification of procedures applicable to the adoption of legislation and other acts by the institutions of the European Union as defined by the treaties. It provides an authority code, the start-use date and a description for each concept. The Procedure nature authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Procedure phase authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing phases of various decisional processes. It was originally created for AKN4EU specifications concerning documents pertaining to the ordinary legislative procedure, but it can be used for other purposes in the future, as a reference for phases of procedures of all nature – non legislative, legislative, internal, interinstitutional and judicial. It is part of the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It provides an authority code and the start-use date and a definition of each concept. The Procedure phase authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union in the Metadata Registry (EU Vocabularies website). 

This table provides a list of activities leading to the conclusion of public contracts used in public procurement according to the legislation.

The Product status authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible statuses of a product.It has been developed specifically for the Linked Data Solutions (LDS) project. 

The Product status authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Product status authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The public event type table defines public events that happen at a particular place and time, are organised by an agent for a particular purpose, and are of interest to a general audience. This definition excludes natural events such as earthquakes or hurricanes. The public event type table is a controlled vocabulary under governance of DG COMM and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Publication accessibility authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides a list of terms describing assistive features and/or adaptations to improve the accessibility of publications for particular needs of some audiences. The list is managed by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Publication accessibility authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

This table describes the measures taken following a review.

This table describes when and whether a given requirement must be provided in a procedure.

The Resource type authority table (AT) lists the different types of document (e.g. directive, regulation, etc.) used in the context of data exchange between the European institutions involved in the legal decision-making process. Set up in order to harmonise the various types of documents used by different systems and, in particular, in the "Core Metadata and Extension Metadata XML schemas", this AT is part of the Core Metadata. With respect to the Core Metadata, Resource type AT is related to the Event and Corporate body (Agent) authority tables. It is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the EU on the EU Vocabularies website.

This table covers the list of organisations providing the review of a given procedure.

This table describes the decision made a review body.

The Role authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing the roles of persons or entities relevant for the descriptive metadata used at the Publications Office and the core metadata used in the data exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision-making process. It is also used by EUR-Lex. The table provides an authority code and the start-use date of each concept and labels in all official EU languages. The Role authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Role qualifier is a code list that serves as a subset or refinement of the Role controlled vocabulary. This code list can be used as a pick list to refine the various roles of persons or entities in detail. The Role qualifier is updated on request and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Scoring authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing concepts that define the different scoring levels for the metadata quality assurance. It provides the name and definition of each concept. The table is based on a custom vocabulary of the European Data Portal. The Scoring authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Script authority table is a controlled vocabulary that lists concepts associated with distinctive scripts.

Its main scope is to support activities associated with publication process.

The concepts included are correlated with the ISO 15924 international standard.

Each script is instantiated according to a writing system, described in writing-system authority table.

The Script authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Script authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Semantic technology authority table is a controlled vocabulary providing possible technologies used in the semantic web.It has been developed specifically for the Linked Data Solutions (LDS) project. It uses the acronyms of the technologies as preferred labels as these technologies are more known by the acronyms than by their long labels. The concepts are linked to their respective standards, specifications or recommendations.

The Semantic technology authority table is updated based on the stakeholders' needs.

Contributions to it are accepted following a review made by the EU Vocabularies team of the Publications Office of the EU.

The Semantic technology authority table is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Site authority table provides the sites occupied by the various EU institutions and bodies and is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Skill reuse level authority file determines the skill pillar concept reusability levels by distinguishing different sets of skills and competences. It is part of ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations), i.e. the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. The Skill reuse level authority file is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Skill type authority file distinguishes the skill pillar concept types. It is part of ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations), i.e. the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. The Skill type authority file is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the values  linked to any social objective  promoted by the technical specifications, award criteria, selection criteria or contract performance conditions included in a procurement.

The Subdivision authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the subdivisions of acts used for legal citations. It also lists the parts of the corrigenda. The Subdivision AT is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is used by Akoma Ntoso for EU, FORMEX, ELI and EUR-Lex for identifying divisions in a text. It provides an authority code and labels in all official EU languages. The subdivision AT is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The Subdivision content authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing concepts that indicate specific content of text divisions. It was created by the Publications Office (OP) for the development of AKN4EU specifications, which concern documents exchanged between the EU Institutions involved in the legal decision making process and sent to OP for publication. It provides the name, authority code, start-use date and definition of each concept (English only). The Subdivision content AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Subject matter authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary showing the concepts used for the indexation of notices published on EUR-Lex. It has also been extended to cover concepts that provide the legal framework of the European Central Bank. The Subject matter AT is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The subject matter classification exists in parallel with two other classifications: the Directory of European Union Legislation and EuroVoc. Differently from these, the subject matter classification is strictly aligned with the evolution of the European Union policies cited in the different treaties of the European Union that can be consulted at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/collection/eu-law/treaties.html?locale=en 

The Summaries of EU legislation classification authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary providing the classification used in the summaries of EU legislation and introductory texts. The Summaries of EU legislation classification AT is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

This authority table provides the target audiences used for the general publications.

This table provides a list of transport services.

The Treaty authority table (AT) is a controlled vocabulary listing the different EU treaties, including treaties and protocols, accession treaties, Schengen Convention and Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Treaty AT is part of the Core Metadata used in the exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision-making process and the Publications Office of the European Union. It is also used by EUR-Lex. It provides an authority code, the start-use date of the concept and labels in all official EU languages. The Treaty AT is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on EU Vocabularies website. 

This table provides the list of codes and values indicating the application of criteria or other concepts and information.

The Use context authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing different applications and environments that make use of the various authority tables. This table is an internal table at the Publications Office of the European Union, and is maintained on the EU Vocabularies website.

The Europass Standard list of verifiable presentation types describes clearly distinguishable verifiable presentation categories of EDC-compliant credential data that credential holders can share with a verifier. It is part of the Europass vocabularies. It is part of the Europass vocabularies that set out a framework developed to support the transparency and understanding of skills and qualifications. The Europass Standard list of verifiable presentation types is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website. 

The website-identifier authority table is a controlled vocabulary which provides a list of websites (URL) included in the europa.eu domain and subdomains. It has been developed specifically for the EU Web Preservation project, but will be used also for many other purposes. The table contains reference to copyright of the websites.

This table provides the list of codes and values used to indicate whether a tenderer was chosen to be awarded with a contract and wether the competiotion is open.