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Glossary : E
A to Z of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms
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- .eps or EPS : Encapsulated Post Script File (see also PS)
- e-... : electronic (something or other) ... see e-gif, e-gov, etc below
- EA : Employment Act 1996
- EA : Environment Agency
- EAI : Enterprise Application Interface (aka Middleware)
- EAP : Extensible Authentication Protocol
- EARWIG : External Additional Resources Working Group
- EAT : Employment Appeal(s) Tribunal
- EBF : European Biometrics Forum
- e-BTI : Electronic Binding Tariff Information
- EC : European Commission
- ECDL : European Computer Driving Licence
- ECHS : Environment, Community and Housing Services
- ECJ : European Court of Justice
- ECM : Enterprise Content Management
- ECMA : European Computer Manufacturers' Association
- ECN : Excess Charge Notice (car park fine)
- ECU : Electronic control units
- ED : Economic Development
- ED : Enumeration District
- EDAC : Error Detection And Correction
- EDM : Electronic document management
- EDP : Educational Development Plan
- EDRMS : Electronic Documents and Records Management
System. Electronic Documents and Records Management. Software to enable
us to move to electronic filing and processing. In Adur this will be based
upon the Hummingbird R/KYV (pronounced Archive) product.
- EDRP : England Rural Development Programme
- EDT : e-Delivery team
- e-DT : Electronic Delivery Team
- EEA : European Economic Area (also non-EEA)
- EEA : European Environment Agency
- e-enablement : the ability of customers to carry out services using the new technology, generally from the website (see also BVPI157)
- EEO : Equal Employment Opportunity
- EFD : Employer's Forum on Disability
- e-forms : Electronic Forms to allow customers
to record information on the internet and send it to us.
- EFQM : European Foundation for Quality Management Excellence Model
- EFS : Encrypting File System
- EGF : Electronic Government Framework
- e-GIF : Electronic Government Interoperability Framework
- e-GMF : Electronic Government Metadata Framework
- e-GMS : Electronic Government Metadata Standard.
- e-GOV or e-Gov or e-gov : Electronic Government (compare with t-gov)
- EHO : Environmental Health Officer
- EHO : Extreme HTML Optimization (see also HTML)
- e-ICG : e-Envoy's Industry Consultation Group
- EIA : Environmental Impact Assessment (see also SEA)
- EIC : Energy Information Centre
- EIM : Enterprise IT Modernisation (see also IT)
- EJBs : Enterprise JavaBeans
- ELO : Electoral Registration Officer
- ELSID : Electronically Sharing Client Data
- ELT : Extremely Large Telescope (see also OWL and VLT)
- EMC : Environmental Management Centre
- EMEA : Europe, Middle East and Africa
- EMS : Environmental Management System
- EMT : Extended Management Team
- EN : English Nature
- ENCORE : ENvironment and Community Online Residents E-Services
- EO : Employers Organisation (Local Government Association)
- EOC : Equal Opportunities Commission
- EOCNI : Equal Opportunities Commission for Northern Ireland - Now abolished and replaced by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, which covers a broader equality agenda
- EOP : Equal Opportunities Policy
- EPA : Environmental Protection Act
- EPA : Equal Pay Act
- e-payment : The ability to pay for services on-line
- EPB : Executive Policy Board
- ePC : electronic Parliamentary Community
- EPM : Enterprise Performance Management
- EPS or .eps : Encapsulated Post Script File (see also PS)
- EPSRC : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- ERA : Employment Rights Act
- ERD : Emergency Repair Disk
- ERDP : England Rural Development Programme
- ERIC : Educational Resources Information Centre thesaurus (http://searcheric.org)
- ERP : Enterprise Resource Planning
- ERPHO : Eastern Region Public Health Observatory
- ES : Employment Service
- ES : Environmental Services
- ESA : Environmentally Sensitive Area
- ESA : European Space Agency
- eSB : Local e-Government Standards Body
- ESCC : East Sussex County Council
- ESCR or eSCR : Electronic social care record
- ESD : Electronic Service Delivery
- e-SDF : Electronic Services Development Framework
- e-SDF : Electronic Services Development Framework
- ESDI : Enhanced Small Device Interface
- ESEGP : East Sussex E-Government Partnership
- ESEP : East Sussex Economic Partnership
- ESF : European Social Fund
- ESLP : East Sussex Learning Partnership
- ESO : European Southern Observatory
- ESOL : English Speakers of Other Languages
- eSP : eGovernment Starter Pack
- ESP : Electronic Stability Program
- ESP : Encapsulation Security Protocol
- ESP : Extra Sensory Perception
- ESRI : European Studies Research Institute
- ESSP : East Sussex Strategic Partnership
- ESU : Elementary Street Unit
- ET : Employment Tribunal (see also EAT)
- ETA : Estimated Time of Arrival
- ETC : English Tourism Council (http://www.englishtourism.org.uk)
- ETD : Equal Treatment Directive
- ETD : Estimated Time of Departure
- ETNs : Efficiency Technical Notes
- ETSI : European Telecommunications Standard Institute
- ETUC : European Trade Union Confederation
- EU : European Union
- EULA : End User licence Agreement
- EY : Early Years
- EYCDP : Early Years Childcare and Development Partnership
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