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Terms and abbreviations

Greek institutional abbreviations used in public procurement and the National eProcurement System. Each card presents the English term and description together with its Greek equivalent.

ΑΑ

Contracting Authority

  • Public authority/body awarding a public contract

α/α

Serial number

  • Sequential numbering item

ΑΕΠΠ

Authority for the Examination of Pre-judicial Appeals

  • Former appeals authority, now integrated into HSPPA/EAΔΗΣΥ

ΑΑΗΤ

E-Invoicing Registered Contracting Authority

  • Contracting authority registered in the e-invoicing registry

ΑΠΕΔ

Hellenic Public Administration Certification Authority

  • Public certification authority for digital certificates

ΑΦ

Contracting Entity

  • Entity operating mainly in utilities/sectors under procurement law

ΓΓΠΣΨΔ

General Secretariat for Information Systems and Digital Governance

  • Greek public body for information systems and digital governance

ΔΣ

Public Contract

  • Contract concluded under public procurement rules

ΔΣΑ

Dynamic Purchasing System — DPS

  • Fully electronic purchasing system for commonly used purchases

ΕΑΑΔΗΣΥ

Single Independent Public Procurement Authority

  • Former independent public procurement authority

ΕΑΔΗΣΥ

Hellenic Single Public Procurement Authority — HSPPA

  • Current public procurement authority following institutional merger

ΕΒΔΔΗΣΥ

National Public Procurement Database

  • National database for public procurement data

ΕΔ

Tender Committee

  • Committee conducting tender procedures and evaluating offers

ΕΔΗΤ

E-Invoice Distribution Application

  • Application for making electronic invoices available

ΕΕ

European Union — EU

  • Political and economic union of European member states

ΕΕΤΤ

Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission

  • National telecoms and postal regulatory authority

ΕΕΕΣ

European Single Procurement Document — ESPD

  • Self-declaration document used in public procurement

eΕΕΕΣ

Electronic ESPD

  • Structured electronic version of the ESPD in XML format

ΕΚ

Implementing Regulation

  • EU implementing legal act

ΕΚΑΑ

National Central Purchasing Body

  • Central body conducting centralized procurement

ΕΚΝ

Government Cloud — G-Cloud

  • Central government cloud infrastructure

ΕΣΗΔΗΣ ΔΕ

National eProcurement System for Public Works

  • Electronic procurement platform for public works

ΕΣΗΔΗΣ Π&Υ

National eProcurement System for Supplies and Services

  • Electronic procurement platform for supplies and services

ΕΨΠ

Single Digital Gateway — gov.gr

  • Unified digital portal of Greek public administration

ΗΤ

Electronic Invoicing

  • Issuing, transmitting and processing invoices electronically

ΜΑΡΚ

Unique Registration Number

  • Unique registration identifier for e-invoices in myDATA

Ν.

Law

  • Statutory legal act

ΚΑΑ

Central Purchasing Body

  • Authority/body conducting centralized procurement

ΚΕΔ

Interoperability Center

  • Public sector interoperability hub

ΚΗΜΔΗΣ

Central Electronic Register of Public Procurement

  • National transparency registry for public procurement acts

ΚΥΑ

Joint Ministerial Decision

  • Administrative act issued jointly by ministers

ΟΠΣ

Integrated Information System

  • Integrated IT system

ΟΠΣΔΠ

Integrated Fiscal Policy Information System

  • IT system supporting fiscal policy processes

ΟΠΣ ΕΣΗΔΗΣ

Integrated National eProcurement System

  • Core IT platform of the national eProcurement system

ΟΦ

Economic Operator

  • Supplier, contractor or service provider participating in procurement

ΠΔ

Presidential Decree

  • Regulatory act issued by presidential decree

ΠΔΕ

Public Investment Programme

  • National programme for public investment projects

eΠΔΕ

Public Investment Programme IT System

  • IT system for management and payments of public investment projects

ΤΠΕ

Information and Communication Technologies — ICT

  • Technologies for information processing and communication

ΥΑ

Ministerial Decision

  • Administrative act issued by a minister

ΥΨΗΔ

Ministry of Digital Governance

  • Greek ministry responsible for digital governance

ΦΕΚ

Government Gazette

  • Official publication of laws and regulatory acts

International and technical abbreviations

International, European and technical terms used in eProcurement, electronic invoicing and digital-governance procedures.

CPV

Common Procurement Vocabulary — CPV

  • EU classification system for procurement objects

DSS

Digital Signature Services

  • EU digital-signature validation services

eCertis

eCertis

  • EU online repository of certificates and documentary evidence

EDM

Exchange Data Model

  • Structured model for exchanging data

EFTA

European Free Trade Association

  • Intergovernmental free trade association

eIDAS

Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services

  • EU framework for electronic identification and trust services

eSender

eSender

  • Certified platform for sending procurement notices to the EU Publications Office

ESPD

European Single Procurement Document

  • Standard procurement self-declaration document

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

  • European standards body for telecommunications

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation

  • EU data protection regulation

GUI

Graphical User Interface

  • Visual interface through which users interact with software

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

  • Core markup language of the World Wide Web

NUTS

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

  • EU territorial classification system for statistics

PDF

Portable Document Format

  • Standard electronic document file format

PEPPOL

Pan-European Public Procurement Online

  • Interoperability framework for eProcurement and eInvoicing

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

  • Infrastructure for digital certificates and cryptographic trust

RfI

Request for Information

  • Preliminary request to collect information or preselect candidates

RfQ/RfP

Request for Quotation / Request for Proposal

  • Request for binding offer or proposal

TED

Tenders Electronic Daily

  • EU online portal for public procurement notices

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

  • Web address identifying an online resource

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

  • Machine-readable structured data format

ZIP

ZIP archive format

  • Compressed file/archive format