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| Community act | 共同体法案 |
| Community budget A schedule of revenues and expenditures for a specific time period that is devised by the European Community, a body of people organized into a political unity | 共同体预算 (欧洲共同体(为由人民团体所组成的政治联合主体)针对一特定时期所设计的税收和支出计划。) |
| Community finance The financial resources or income of the European Community, a body of people organized into a political unity | 共同体金融 (欧洲共同体(为由人民团体所组成的政治联合主体)的财政资源与收入。) |
| Community law The law of European Community (as opposed to the national laws of the member states) It consists of the treaties establishing the EC (together with subsequent amending treaties) community legislation, and decisions of the court of justice of the European Communities. Any provision of the treaties or of community legislation that is directly applicable or directly effective in a member state forms part of the law of that state and prevails over its national law in the event of any inconsistency between the two | 欧洲共同体法规 (欧洲共同体的法律(相对于会员国的国家法律)。它包含建立欧洲共同体(连同后来的修正协订)的立法协定,与欧洲共同体司法院的决定。任何协定或共同体立法的规定，都将直接适用或直接有效于各会员国，形成各会员国国家法律的一部分,及作为处理两会员国在发生意见不一致事件时优先于各会员国国家法律。) |
| Community legal system The directly applicable legislation of the European Community regulating the relations of member states | 共同体法律系统 (欧洲共同体为规范会员国的直接通用法律。) |
| community participation Involvement in public or private actions, as members or as a member of a particular ethnic, political or social group, with the purpose of exerting influence | 社区参与 (以一个特殊种族、政治或社会组织的群体会员或单一会员参与公共或个人活动以发挥影响目的。) |
| community-pays principle A tenet of environmental policy, according to which the costs of ecological challenges, environmental quality improvements and the removal of environmental hazards are allotted to community groups or local corporations and, thereby, to the general public | 共同体支付原则 (依据生态的挑战、环境品质的改善，和环境有害物质的去除等成本，专款拨给社区组织或当地政府，并借此拨给一般民众的环境政策原则。) |
| Community ruling | 共同管辖 |
| Court of Justice of the European Communities Institution set up under Treaty of Rome to ensure that in interpretation and application of the Treaty the law is observed. It consists of judges from each member state, appointed for 6-year periods, assisted by three Advocates General. It sits in Luxembourg, expressing itself in judgements when called upon to do so in proceedings initiated by member states, institutions of the EC and natural or legal persons. Procedures are generally inquisitorial | 欧盟法院 (依据罗马条约所设置的机构，在解释和应用条约时遵守法律。它由每个会员国的法官所组成，每六年委派一次，由三个总检察长帮助履行职责。 欧盟法院位于卢森堡公国，当欧盟机构与自然人或法人等成员国成员发生诉讼争端时可请它执行裁决。) |
| ecological community 1. All of the plants and animals in an area or volume; a complex association usually containing both animals and plants. 2. Any naturally occurring group of organisms that occupy a common environment | 生态群落 (1. 区域或空间内所有动物和植物；通常包含动物和植物的复杂关系。 2. 任何自然产生﹐且占有某一公共环境的生物群体。) |
| European Communities The collective body that resulted in 1967 from the merger of the administrative networks of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM), the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and the European Economic Community (EEC). The singular term has also been widely used | 欧洲共同体 (由欧洲原子能委员会，欧洲煤炭和钢铁委员会，和欧洲经济委员会在1967年合并而成的负责管理的联合机构。这个词的单数形式也被广泛使用。) |
| new community A sociopolitical, religious, occupational or other group of common characteristics and interests formed as an alternative to social, and often residential, options currently available | 新社区 (具有共同特征和利益的社会政治的、宗教的、职业的或其他方面的团体结构，可作为当前居住社会的有效的替代选项。) |
| plant community Any group of plants belonging to a number of different species that co-occur in the same habitat or area and interact through trophic and spatial relationships; typically characterized by reference to one or more dominant species | 植物群落 (属于数个不同植物物种的集合，在同一环境或地区通过营养和空间关系，形成一个或多个的优势物种。) |
| territorial community An infrastructure, body of people or homogenous constituency that is physically situated in a localized exurban area | 地域社群 (位于城市远郊区的一个本地化的人或团体生活的基础设施。) |
| urban community Body of people living in a town or city | 城市社区 (住在城镇或城市的人群所组成的社群。) |
