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Tender
A tender or Public Procurement is announced for purchasing of goods, services and works. The selected provider will make profit after the mission.

Tenders Electronic Daily
TED is the acronym of this official website for public tenders. It is a supplement to the Official Journal and publishes tenders in all official languages.

The European Union in the World
Refer to the European Commission's external relations web portal on EUROPA. It provides information about the EU's external relations policies with special focus on those carried out by the European Commission and it also give access to the information available on the different external relations websites.

Third country
In EU context, this term refers to a State not Member of the EU. In general economic terms it refers to a country not taking part in a trade agreement.

Transnational
This word is often used to describe cooperation between businesses or organisations based in more than one EU country. Part of the EU’s purpose is to encourage this cross-border or "transnational" cooperation

Transparency
The term "transparency" is often used to mean openness in the way the EU institutions work. The EU institutions are committed to greater openness. They are taking steps to improve public access to information, and they are working to produce clearer and more readable documents. This includes better drafting of laws and, ultimately, a single, simplified EU Treaty.

Treaties of Rome
The Treaties of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) or Euroatom, which were signed on 25 March 1957 and came into force on 1 January 1958.

Treaty of Nice
This Treaty entered into force on the 1 February 2003 and opened the way to the institutional reform needed for the EU enlargement. Main changes included limitating the size and composition of the Commissionof the size and composition of the Commission, extending qualified majority voting, a new weighting of votes within the Council and making the cooperation agreements stronger and more flexible.

Treaty of Paris
Also called Treaty of the European Coal and Steel Union, it was signed the 18 April 1951 and came into force on the 25 July 1952. It was the founding instrument, which initiated the construction of the EU defining the main institutions.

Treaty of the European Union
Another term for this Treaty is the Maastricht Treaty (see above) as it was signed in Maastricht, Netherlands, 1992.

Two-speed Europe
This term is used when speaking about how far and how fast to go with the European Integration and refers to a situation when some Member States go further quickly with deeper integration and some proceed at a slower pace.