EU-15 definition

EU-15 means the countries of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (i.e., Europe excluding the EU-5 and EU-30).
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EU-15 means the countries who were member states of the EU immediately prior to 1 May 2004, being Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom;
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EU-15 means the 15 member states of the European Union prior to enlargement;
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Examples of EU-15 in a sentence

  • Bulgaria has surpassed the EU-12 average of 11.3 deaths per 100,000 live births and is approaching the EU-15 average of 7.6 deaths per 100,000 live births (Figure 6).

  • MARKAL is applied to a database that depicts the reference energy system of Western Europe (EU15+).

  • Despite the significant reduction, however, Bulgaria’s infant mortality rate is still more than three times higher than the EU-15 average of 3.2 infant deaths per 1000 live births and almost twice as high as the EU-12 average of 5.5 infant deaths per 1000 live births.

  • Thereafter, different interesting trade and development indexes of the ACP group as well as of the EU-15 group will be displayed and interpreted.

  • Being part of a FTA with EU15 countries (Eas) increased CEECs bilateral trade by more than 12%; intra-periphery agreements increased trade around 14.% on average.

  • For the years 1960/61 through 1998/99, figures are the EU-15 and also exclude all intra-trade.

  • The focus is on the three main innovating regions of the world: the US, Japan and the EU15, which together account for roughly 87% of innovation in this field in our sample.

  • The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the final agreement is adequate, indeed, to meet the initial targets of the reform, as were outlined by the Commission, and in particular, to meet the requirements of the forthcoming enlargement, from the point of view of both, the internal market of EU-15 and the new comers.

  • In 2005, the final energy intensity in Lithuania stood at 318 (kgtoe/thou USD at prices as of 2000), whereas in more advanced Member States of the EU (EU-15) it was 129 (kgtoe/thou USD at prices as of 2000), i.e. nearly 2.5 times higher.

  • The results from the analysis point to some key pre- 2000 weaknesses of the EU15 RES innovation system, which is shown to be geographically localized and highly fragmented.