]> European Government Entities and Jurisdictions Ontology This ontology provides the set of basic European Union specific government level entities and jurisdictions for use in other FIBO ontologies. http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT The https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/BE/20180801/GovernmentEntities/EuropeanJurisdiction/EUGovernmentEntitiesAndJurisdictions.rdf version of this ontology was modified to remove the UK from coverage by the EU jurisdiction and replace references to the Czech Republic with Czechia. The https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/BE/20190101/GovernmentEntities/EuropeanJurisdiction/EUGovernmentEntitiesAndJurisdictions.rdf version of this ontology was modified to remove the unnecessary imports. The https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/BE/20220201/GovernmentEntities/EuropeanJurisdiction/EUGovernmentEntitiesAndJurisdictions.rdf version of this ontology was modified to address text formatting hygiene issues. The https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/BE/20220801/GovernmentEntities/EuropeanJurisdiction/EUGovernmentEntitiesAndJurisdictions.rdf version of the ontology was modified to use the Commons Ontology Library (Commons) Annotation Vocabulary rather than the OMG's Specification Metadata vocabulary. The https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/BE/20230101/GovernmentEntities/EuropeanJurisdiction/EUGovernmentEntitiesAndJurisdictions.rdf version of this ontology was modified to use the Commons Ontology Library (Commons) rather than the OMG's Languages, Countries and Codes (LCC) and to eliminate redundancies in FIBO as appropriate. Copyright (c) 2016-2023 EDM Council, Inc. Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Object Management Group, Inc. European Union entity individual representing the federated sovereignty and polity that is the European Union European Union jurisdiction individual representing the overall jurisdiction for the European Union, namely, that of the Court of Justice of the EU and Court of Auditors of the EU https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries_en Government of the European Union individual representing the parliament, council, and other institutions that comprise the government of the European Union https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries_en In the EU's unique institutional set-up: - the EU's broad priorities are set by the European Council, which brings together national and EU-level leaders directly elected MEPs represent European citizens in the European Parliament - the interests of the EU as a whole are promoted by the European Commission, whose members are appointed by national governments - governments defend their own country's national interests in the Council of the European Union.