]> Northern Europe Government Entities and Jurisdictions Ontology This ontology provides government entities and jurisdictions for countries that are defined as being part of Northern Europe in the U.N. M49 codes, primarily those that are considered independent countries in ISO 3166, or are important from a banking perspective. http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT The http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/BE/20200801/GovernmentEntities/EuropeanJurisdiction/NorthernEuropeGovernmentEntitiesAndJurisdictions.rdf version of this ontology was modified to address hygiene issues with diacritical marks that are language-specific. The https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/BE/20210201/GovernmentEntities/EuropeanJurisdiction/NorthernEuropeGovernmentEntitiesAndJurisdictions.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 initial version of this ontology reflects the national level only. Copyright (c) 2010-2023 EDM Council, Inc. Copyright (c) 2010-2023 Object Management Group, Inc. Ahvenanmaan lainkäyttöalue Aland Islands jurisdiction Ålandöarnas jurisdiktion jurisdiction of the Aland District Court, which deals with criminal cases, civil cases and petitionary matters in first instance, with escalation to the appellate level in Finland as needed Ålands tingsrätt Ahvenanmaan kokonaisuus Alandic entity Ålandisk enhet regional sovereignty and polity that is Aland Danish entity Dansk enhed sovereign state and polity that is Denmark Eesti üksus Estonian entity sovereign state and polity that is Estonia Finnish entity Suomen entiteetti sovereign state and polity that is Finland Ahvenanmaan hallitus Government of Aland Ålands regering regional government of the Aland Islands, an archipelago province at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland The Aland Islands are governed according to the Act on the Autonomy of Aland and international treaties. These laws guarantee the islands' autonomy from Finland, which has ultimate sovereignty over them, as well as a demilitarised status. The Government of Aland answers to the Parliament of Aland, in accordance with the principles of parliamentarism. Government of Iceland Ríkisstjórn Íslands unitary parliamentary republic and representative democracy, that is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Government of the Kingdom of Denmark Kongeriget Danmarks regering unitary constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with the monarch as the official head of government, that includes the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, consisting of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands Danish government Danmarks regering Government of the Kingdom of Norway Kongeriket Norges regjering unitary constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, wherein the monarch is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government, whose mainland comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula and includes the remote island of Jan Mayen as well as the archipelago of Svalbard Government of the Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sveriges regering constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a largely ceremonial and representative monarch as head of state, located in Scandinavia between the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea and Eurasian Russia Eesti Vabariigi valitsus Government of the Republic of Estonia democratic unitary parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties, located on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe Government of the Republic of Finland Suomen tasavallan hallitus parliamentary republic within the framework of a representative democracy comprised of 19 regions and 310 municipalities, located in the Nordic region of Europe Government of the Republic of Ireland Rialtas Phoblacht na hÉireann parliamentary, representative democratic republic, based on the British model, that is an independent state and member of the European Union, which covers five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Government of the Republic of Latvia Latvijas Republikas valdība unitary, parliamentary, constitutional republic located in the Baltic region of Northern Europe Government of the Republic of Lithuania Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausybė unitary semi-presidential republic situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the southeast of Sweden and Denmark Icelandic entity Íslensk eining sovereign state and polity that is Iceland Aonán Éireannach Irish entity sovereign state and polity that is Ireland Danmarks jurisdiktion jurisdiction of Denmark jurisdiction of the judiciary of Denmark, a civil law system with some references to Germanic law that was substantially reformed in 2007 Eesti jurisdiktsioon jurisdiction of Estonia jurisdiction of the judiciary of Estonia, a civil law legal system based on the Germanic legal model, whose Supreme Court is the court of cassation, which also conducts constitutional review Suomen lainkäyttövaltaan jurisdiction of Finland jurisdiction of the judiciary of Finland, a civil law system divided between courts with regular civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts with jurisdiction over litigation between individuals and the public administration jurisdiction of Iceland lögsögu Íslands jurisdiction of the judiciary of Finland, a three-tier civil law system whose highest court is the Supreme Court of Iceland dlínse na hÉireann jurisdiction of Ireland jurisdiction of the judiciary of Ireland, which is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in Ireland Latvijas jurisdikcija jurisdiction of Latvia jurisdiction of the judiciary of Latvia, which is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in Latvia Lietuvos jurisdikcija jurisdiction of Lithuania jurisdiction of the judiciary of Lithuania, whose highest court is the Constitutional Court (Konstitucinis Teismas), but the general jurisdiction dealing with civil and criminal cases includes the Supreme Court of Lithuania, the Court of Appeal of Lithuania, regional courts, and district courts jurisdiction of Norway jurisdiksjon av Norge jurisdiction of the judiciary system in Norway, a civil law system where laws are created and amended in parliament and the system regulated through the Courts of Justice of Norway Sveriges jurisdiktion jurisdiction of Sweden jurisdiction of the judiciary system in Sweden, which is part of the Ministry of Justice, whose courts are divided into two parallel and separate systems - general courts (allmänna domstolar) for criminal and civil cases, and general administrative courts (allmänna förvaltningsdomstolar) for cases relating to disputes between private persons and the authorities Latvian entity Latvijas vienība sovereign state and polity that is Latvia Lietuvos subjektas Lithuanian entity sovereign state and polity that is Lithuania Norsk enhet Norwegian entity sovereign state and polity that is Norway Svensk enhet Swedish entity sovereign state and polity that is Sweden