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1 Wüster, whose work was initially published in German, uses the term 'Allgemeine Terminologielehre'. The English terms employed to describe Wüster's ideas in this research have been taken from two sources, viz. Felber 1984 and Temmerman 2000.

2 Wüster used the term 'Begriffssysteme' (Wüster 1991: 9).

3 Wüster used the term 'Begriffsbestimmung'.

4 Wüster used the term 'Benennung'.

5 Wüster used the term 'eineindeutig' to describe the idea of univocity: "d.h., daß grundsätzlich jedem Begriff nur eine einzige Benennung zugeordnet ist, und umgekehrt. … Es sollte also weder mehrdeutige Bennungen (Homonyme and Polyseme), noch Mehrfachbenennungen für einen Begriff (Synonyme) geben" (Wüster 1991: 87). Univocity combines monosymy, which means that one concept has only one designation, and mononymy, which indicates that one term refers to only one concept. Thus, synonymy and polysemy are eliminated (Temmerman 2000: 10).

6 Wüster used the term 'Sprachnormung' (Wüster 1991: 97).

7 The terms 'practical terminology' (Rey 1995: 135), 'terminological practice' (Cabré 1999: 115), 'terminography' and 'terminological work' (Meyer and Mackintosh 1996: 259) are often used synonymously. As scholars prefer 'terminography' to 'terminology' when referring to the practical task of producing dictionaries of terms (Meyer and Mackintosh 1996: 259; Meyer 2001: 279; Temmerman 2000: 230; Cabré 1999: 115), the expression 'terminography' is predominantly used in this context, with the person who builds terminological dictionaries being referred to as 'terminographer' (Meyer and Mackintosh 1996: 259). In fact, 'terminology' is hardly ever used to describe the practice of describing terminological data.

8 The UK joined the EEC together with Ireland and Denmark.

9 While the European Economic Community is the predecessor of the European Union, which was created by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, the European Community (EC) represents the first pillar of the EU, the other two being the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and cooperation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA). As development cooperation is categorised as a policy of the European Community, cooperation between the EU and the ACP States is often referred to as 'ACP-EC cooperation'.

10 Financial aid granted to the ACP States is mainly provided by the European Development Fund (EDF). The EDFs are usually concluded for a period of five years, following the agreement cycles (European Union Website 2007).

11 The European Union was only created in 1992 by the Treaty of Maastricht. Prior to that date, its member countries were referred to as the members of the EEC, the European Economic Community. The number refers to the number of European countries at the date of signature.

12 Prior to Lomé, these countries were referred to as the Associated States. The number refers to the number of ACP States at the date of signature.

13 Based on data from the agreements database provided by the Council of the European Communities (http://www.consilium.europa.eu/Applications/accords/search.asp) as well as the European Commission (European Commission Website 2009c) and the European Union (European Union Website 2007).

14 Due to their above-average use in some of the texts, these words may appear key when compared with the words in the reference corpus. They can, however, be excluded from the terminological analysis.

15 Due to the relatively small size of three of the ten corpora (viz. the Rome corpus, the Lomé IV bis corpus and the revised Cotonou corpus), their entire word lists have been used to generate word clusters.

16 In cases where word sequences that form part of more than one cluster are included in the results, the frequency counts in Table 3 are distorted as the same word sequence is counted more often than once.

17 Number of key words after cleaning the initial results generated by WordSmith Tools from noise and words which are clearly irrelevant from a terminological viewpoint.

18 Number of word clusters after cleaning the initial results generated by WordSmith Tools from noise and related clusters.

19 In Lomé I to IV the term 'stabilization' is spelt with the letter 'z', whereas in Lomé IV bis as well as the original and the revised Cotonou Agreement the spelling 'stabilisation', i.e. with the letter 's', is used.