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CEE is used as an abbreviation for (the countries of) Central and Eastern Europe.
It was predominately used to describe former Communist countries in Europe, after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Later it has become an abbreviation mostly (still being not precisely defined) referring to the European countries east of Germany and south to the Balkan states - in most cases it includes:
- Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
- Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
- Romania, Bulgaria
- sometimes also: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia
See also Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Eastern bloc.
CEE was also an abbreviation used for the International Commission for Conformity Certification of Electrical Equipment, founded in 1946 and absorbed by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1985.