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<div class="">Le 17 mars 2017 à 15:08, Gervase Markham via Public <<a href="mailto:public@cabforum.org" class="">public@cabforum.org</a>> a écrit :</div>
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<div class="">On 17/03/17 11:26, Dimitris Zacharopoulos via Public wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2" class="">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2</a>, it is documented<br class="">
that the European Commission<br class="">
<<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission</a>> generally uses ISO<br class="">
3166-1 alpha-2 codes *with two exceptions*: EL (not GR) is used to<br class="">
represent Greece and UK (not GB) is used to represent the United Kingdom.<br class="">
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UK is "exceptionally reserved" in ISO 3166:<br class="">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Exceptional_reservations" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Exceptional_reservations</a><br class="">
so therefore can't be taken by another country. However, EL is not so<br class="">
reserved as far as I can see, and so could be allocated to another<br class="">
country at any time.<br class="">
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<div>You’re right, EL is « Unassigned » while UK is « Exceptionally reserved ».</div>
<div>See <a href="https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#search" class="">https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#search</a>.</div>
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<div>Dimitris, the page <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Glossary:Country_codes" class="">http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Glossary:Country_codes</a> lists country codes for statistics only, without
any link to ISO3166-1.</div>
<div>An unassigned code is used for Palestine, non alpha-2 code is used for « China (except Hong-Kong) » (but no specific code for a similar « China (except Macao) »), and while this page seems to be dated December 2016, the country code MK is officially reserved
(and was already so in my copy of 3166-1:2013).</div>
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