Abbreviations and acronyms
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Ballast Water Management
Ballast Water Management Convention
Ballast Water Management System
Ballast Water Treatment System
Common International Classification for Ecosystem Services
Copernicus Marine Environment Service
Central Product Classification
Directorate-General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
Portugal’s Directorate-General for Maritime Policy
European Commission
Environmental DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Exclusive Economic Zone
Evaluation française des écosystèmes et des services écosystémiques
Environmental Impact Assessment
European Marine Data Observation Network
US Economics: National Ocean Watch
Earth Observation
Essential ocean variable
US Environmental Protection Agency
European System of Accounts
UN Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific
European Union
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
European Ocean Observing System
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Global Climate Observing System
Group of Earth Observations
Global Earth Observing System of Systems
Geographic Information System
Global Ocean Commission
Global Ocean Observing System
Gross Value Added
Global Wind Energy Council
Harmful Algal Bloom Operational Forecast System
Harmful Algal Blooms
International Council for Science
International Energy Agency
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
International Maritime Organisation
Integrated Marine Observing System of Australia
Integrated Maritime Policy
Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO)
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange
Programme (IOC)
US Integrated Ocean Observing System
International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities
Marine and Renewable Energy in Ireland
Marine Autonomous and Robotics Innovation Centre
Marker-Assisted Sequencing
Marine Protected Area
Marine Renewable Energy
Marine Spatial Planning
General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities within the
European Communities
North American Industry Classification System
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Ocean Frontier Institute
Offshore Renewable Energy
Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the
North-East Atlantic
Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands
Public Research Institutes
Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle
Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre
Satellite Account for the Sea
Sustainable Development Goals
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
System of Environmental-Economic Accounts – Central Framework
System of Environmental-Economic Accounts – Experimental
Ecosystem Accounting
System of National Accounts
Supply and Use Tables
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Technological Readiness Level
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Statistical Commission
World Meteorological Organization