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EuroVoc is a thesaurus available in multiple languages that covers a wide range of fields related to the EU’s activities (e.g. law, finance, trade). It is used to describe and index the documents in EUR-Lex and improve access to legislation. It is divided into 21 domains and 127 sub-domains.

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