Glossary
- IFRS
- International accounting standards effective from 1 January 2005 to facilitate the comparison of companies’ financial situations.
- IFU-imprime fiscal unique
- Incinerator
- Facility subject to authorisation, designed to incinerate waste. More and more incinerators now rcover waste in the form of electricity or thermal energy. The by-products of incineration (bottom ash and fly ash) are processed with a view to controlling the impacts of this activity both on mankind and on the environment.
- Industrial wastewater
- Wastewater resulting from an industrial or commercial activity.
- Inert waste
- Waste which unlikely to evolve physically or chemically (non toxic, non biodegradable, very low solubility in water, non oxidizable), for example, backfill, rubble, etc.
- ISIN code
- International Securities Identification Number – this is the international identification for financial securities (shares, bonds etc). Ticker code (or symbol): complementary to the ISIN, it evokes the company’s name, and is therefore easier to remember."
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