AAW | general disability benefit act | AFMP | National Federation for Military Personnel |
AMC | Amsterdam university hospital | AOW | state pension scheme |
AVNM | union for military conscripts | ANBO | national society of the elderly |
AWBZ | exceptional medical expenses | BGR | association of nursery product wholesalers |
BKR | central credit registration agency | BNG | Bank Netherlands' Municipalities |
BVD | Domestic Intelligence Service | CBA | central employment planning office |
CBIN | Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency | CAO | collective labour agreement |
COA | central reception body for refugees | CPB | Central Planning Bureau |
CSO | umbrella body for senior citizens | ID-DLO | agriculture research institute |
DNB | De Nederlandsche Bank (central bank) | ECD | Economic Supervisory Body |
EIM | economic institute for smaller businesses | FIOD | fiscal fraud investigation service, fiscal police |
FNV | trade union federation | GAK | social security administration body |
HSL | high speed rail link | IND | immigration and naturalisation service |
KNVB | Dutch football association | KNMI | royal national weather service |
LHV | national association of general practitioners | LISV | social welfare supervisory body |
LLTB | southern farmers organisation | LTO | national farming organisation |
LVT | National Association for Home Care | MBO | senior vocational education |
MKB | small and medium-sized business association | NDP | daily newspapers' umbrella association |
NOS | public broadcasting system | NMa | National Monopolies and Mergers Authority |
NS | Netherlands Rail | NVB | national banking association |
NVV | Netherlands' pig farmers union | NVvR | judges and prosecutors representative body |
OM | Public Prosecutors' Office | PBOs | Statutory industrial organisations |
RIAGGs | the regional institutes for mental welfare | RIVM | Institute for Public Health and the Environment |
SER | Socio-Economic Council | STE | national watchdog for the securities trade |
SVB | social securities authority | TBS | forced psychiatric treatment sentence |
TICA | supervising body social security payments | TNO | scientific research institute |
VNO-NCW | employers' association | VEB | shareholders association |
VNG | local councils association | VVVs | regional tourist bureaus |
VUT | early retirement scheme | WAO | employee disability payments, premiums |
WRR | scientific council for government policy | WW | unemployment benefits recipients/payments |
