Left panel: central (≃30 pc) region of the CO(2–1) map of NGC 1068 showing the torus and its connections with the CND. The yellow line identifies the orientation of the axis chosen to derive the position–velocity diagram shown in Fig. 20 (PA = −10°). Middle and right panels: overlay of the CO(2–1) intensity contours integrated inside v^blue = [v_sys − 140, v_sys] km s⁻¹ (blue contours in middle panel) and v^red = [v_sys, v_sys + 140] km s⁻¹ (red contours in right panel) on the continuum emission image of Fig. 1 obtained at 229.7 GHz (grayscale). Blue and red contours are 2.5σ, 4σ, 6σ, 8σ, 11σ, 15σ and 20σ where 1σ = 5.8 mJy km s⁻¹ beam⁻¹. Gray contours are as in Fig. 1(left panel). The (solid) green lines identify the region occupied by the AGN wind. In all panels, the AGN locus is identified by the green marker and the magenta ellipse highlights the position and full size of the CO(2–1) torus as determined in Sect. 5.1.