Document types and designations

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In general, EU Commission documents are named COM-documents. EU Parliament documents are named PE-documents. The Committee of the Region uses CDR and the Social and Economic Committee CES.

Usually, the documents also give information about the legislative procedures: ACC for agreement, AVC for assent, COD for co-decision, CNB for consultation of ECB, CNS for consultation and SYN for co-operation.