Abbreviations and acronyms
Full name or term
Tariffs, taxes and transfers
Association Agreement (with the EU)
National Energy Regulatory Agency of the Republic of Moldova
Alpha Plus Consulting
billion
Ministry of Finance of Moldova database of public expenditures
Build-operate-transfer
Business Research Company
Corporate Development Programme (or Plan)
Connection (access point)
day
Domestic Financial Support Mechanism
Earnings before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Economic Regulatory System
European Union
Euro (currency of the European Monetary Union)
Financial and Operational Performance Improvement Programme
Former Yugoslavia’s Republic of Macedonia
Gross Domestic Product
Government of Moldova
Human Development Index
International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities
Increasing Block Tariff
Inter-community Development Agency
International Financial Institution
International Financial Reporting Standards
Integrated Water Resource Management
kilometre
Key Performance Indicator
Committee on Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition under the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
kilowatt hour (unit of electricity consumption)
Local Public Authority
litres per capita per day
Cubic metre
Moldovan Lei (national currency)
million
Market-Based Repayable External Finance
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family
Republic of Moldova
Ministry of Regional Development and Construction
Microsoft Corporation
National Bureau of Statistics of Moldova
National Ecological Fund
National Fund for Regional Development
Non-governmental organisation
Newly Independent States (the Republics of the former Soviet Union)
National Policy Dialogue (on water policy)
Non-revenue water
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Person equivalent
Project Implementation Unit
Purchasing Power Parity
Regulatory Asset Base
River Basin District
Revenue Collection Rate
Regulatory Impact Assessment
Regional Operating Company
Sustainable Development Goals
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (of the Swiss Confederation)
South East Europe
Special Purpose Bank Account
Staff per 1 000 connections
Technical Assistance
TreeVelop Projects and Processes
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
United States Dollar
Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
water
Weighted Average Cost of Capital
Water Framework Directive
Water Supply and Sanitation
Water Treatment Plant
Water Users Committee
Wastewater
Wastewater Treatment
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Water and Wastewater