Eurovoc

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Eurovoc is a thesaurus developed, published and used by the European Union for indexing documents of the European institutions. Eurovoc is used by the European Parliament, the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, some national and regional parliaments in Europe, national administrations and certain European organizations. It covers all areas of activity of the European Communities and is divided into 21 subject areas and 127 microthesauri. Eurovoc comprises a total of 6645 descriptors and, depending on the language version, 150 (Slovenian) to 13,139 (Czech) non-descriptors .

With version 4.3 (available since January 20, 2009) the thesaurus was published in 24 languages, 22 of which are  official languages ​​of the European Union (Bulgarian, Danish, German, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Italian, Croatian, Latvian, and Lithuanian , Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Czech and Hungarian) and Serbian. In addition, it has been translated into the respective national language by the parliamentary services of Albania, Russia and the Ukraine and into Basque by the government of the Spanish province of Biscay.

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  1. a b German-language Eurovoc homepage
  2. EUROVOC on the education server , accessed on June 9, 2020.

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