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rain (Precipitation in the form of liquid water drops with diameters greater than 0.5 millimeter) |
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| euri azido |
acid rain (Rain having a pH less than 5.6. The acidity results from chemical reactions occurring when water, sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides, generally released by industrial processes, are chemically transformed into sulphuric and nitric acids) |
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| euri-oihan tropikal |
rain forest (A forest of broad-leaved, mainly evergreen, trees found in continually moist climates in the tropics, subtropics, and some parts of the temperate zones) |
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| euri-oihan tropikal |
tropical rain forest (The most valuable and the richest ecosystem on Earth. It plays a critical part in the Earth's life support systems and house 50%, and possibly as much as 90%, of all the species on Earth. It is a key storehouse of foods, oils and minerals, and a source of ingredients that make up a range of medical treatments. It also represents home and livelihood for many people. However, more than half of the rainforests have disappeared, chopped down for valuable tropical hardwoods, or cleared to provide areas for cattle grazing or human habitation. The forests play an important part in climate patterns, and deforestation is thought to be responsible for 18% of global warming. Furthermore, as they disappear there is also an albedo effect - a damaging increase in the sunlight reflected - which affects wind and rainfall patterns) |
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| euri-ur |
rain water (Water which falls as rain from clouds) |
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| euri-uren estolda-sare |
rain water sewer system (Channels for clearing away rain water) |
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| euriak eragindako esekidura |
rainout (Process by which particles in the atmosphere act as centres round which water can form drops which then falls as rain) |
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| Europa |
Europe (The second smallest continent, forming the W extension of Eurasia: the border with Asia runs from the Urals to the Caspian and the Black Sea. The coastline is generally extremely indented and there are several peninsulas (notably Scandinavia, Italy and Iberia) and offshore islands (including the British Isles and Iceland). It contains a series of great mountain systems in the south (Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Carpathians, Caucasus), a large central plain, and a N region of lakes and mountains in Scandinavia) |
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| Europako arau |
European standard (A standard which has been approved pursuant to the statutes of the standards bodies with which the Community has concluded agreements) |
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| Europako barne-merkatu |
internal European market |
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| Europako Batasuna |
European Union (The 15 nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Austria, Finland and Sweden) that have joined together to form an economic community with common monetary, political and social aspirations. The EU came into being on 1 November 1993 according to the terms of the Maastricht Treaty; it comprises the three European Communities, extended by the adoption of a common foreign and security policy which requires cooperation between member states in foreign policy and security and cooperation in justice and home affairs) |
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| Europako Batasunaren ekipamendu |
community facility (Buildings, equipment and services provided for a community) |
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| Europako Batasunaren erabaki |
Community ruling |
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| Europako Batasuneko akta |
Community act |
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| Europako Batasuneko aurrekontu |
Community budget (A schedule of revenues and expenditures for a specific time period that is devised by the European Community, a body of people organized into a political unity) |
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| Europako Batasuneko finantzak |
Community finance (The financial resources or income of the European Community, a body of people organized into a political unity) |
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| Europako Batasuneko Kontseilu |
EU Council (The Council of the European Union is an institution which exercises legislative and decision-making powers. At the same time, it is the forum in which the representatives of the Governments of the 15 Member States can assert their interests and try to reach compromises. The Council ensures general coordination of the activities of the European Community, the main objective of which is the establishment of an internal market, i.e. an area without internal frontiers guaranteeing four freedoms of movement - for goods, persons, services and capital - to which should soon be added a single currency. In addition, the Council is responsible for intergovernmental cooperation, in common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and in the areas of justice and home affairs (JHA), including for example matters of immigration and asylum, combating terrorism and drugs and judicial cooperation) |
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| Europako Batasuneko zuzenbide-sistema |
Community legal system (The directly applicable legislation of the European Community regulating the relations of member states) |
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| Europako Batsuneko zuzenbide |
Community law (The law of European Community (as opposed to the national laws of the member states) It consists of the treaties establishing the EC (together with subsequent amending treaties) community legislation, and decisions of the court of justice of the European Communities. Any provision of the treaties or of community legislation that is directly applicable or directly effective in a member state forms part of the law of that state and prevails over its national law in the event of any inconsistency between the two) |
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| Europako Batzordea |
European Commission (The European Union's administrative body, composed of twenty independent members appointed by the Member States for five-year terms and vested with powers of initiative, implementation, management and control according to the mandates established in EU Treaties or handed down by the EU Council) |
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