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# Description of types

Numbers might change slightly as data is updated; follow the link for exact numbers.

Code | Fullname | Comparison | Plot | Comments
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ECA Corpus | ECA list | ECA search engine
| All publications | 2232 |  | 2532 |  | ECA Corpus excludes publications such as extracts from the general budget.
| Annual reports | 807 |  | 821 |  | Excluding seven corrigenda in ECA Corpus.
Annual reports
budget | EU budget annual report | 54 | 46 | 71 |  | It might contain others such as EDF. Corpus contains five corrigenda. ECA Corpus already checked agaist the ECA list.
specific | Specific annual report | 1129 | 1129 | 755 (All results) 751 (Publications) |  | Part of the annual report or separated annual report. Grouped as 65 organisations, each with its own numbering; for example, 32/16, where 32 is the entity and 16 the number within the entity.
info | Informational | 28 |  |  |  | Publications that are not official part of annual reports, such as audit in brief, infographic, FAQ, or glossary.
Reports ECA classifies as report only the special reports and reviews: "We published 35 reports in 2023. These comprised 29 special reports and six reviews."
special | Special report | 635 | 632 | 619 |  | Three more in the Corpus vs. the list. Some documents do not come out with the search engine. Use English in the search engine, bug produces different results in other languages; it might happen with other types. Publications Office
review | Review | 43 | 41 | 44 |  | ECA Corpus checked agaist the ECA list. ECA list not up to date. One item in the ECA search engine missclassified.
opinion | Opinion | 283 | not checked | 301 |  |
paper | Paper |  |  |  |  | background paper, study, observation, reflexion, analysis, overview, and similar
work | Work Program |  |  |  |  |
activity | Activity Report |  |  |  |  |
speech | Speech |  |  |  |  | address, discour, presentation and similar
preview | Preview and audit brief |  |  |  |  |
journal | ECA Journal |  |  |  |  | Like this type, some fall in a grey zone. Ideally, ECA should decide which are core.
decision | Decision |  |  |  |  | Should they be part of the Corpus? "... there is not a list of the decision that are publicly available, as the majority of ECA Decisions are of internal use only, however some of these documents are published on the ECA website because of their interest for the general public."
misc | Miscellaneous |  |  |  |  |