Commission Regulation (EC) No 11/2008 of 8 January 2008 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) on the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown
Date: 2008-01-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: data collection, regional statistics, statistical method, statistical nomenclature

9.1.2008

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 11/2008

of 8 January 2008

implementing Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the
territorial units for statistics (NUTS) on the
establishment of a common classification of

transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of
the
European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on
the establishment of a common classification of territorial units
for statistics (NUTS) (1), and in particular Article 5(5) thereof,

(4)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 constitutes the legal
framework for the EU regional classification in order to
enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of
harmonised regional statistics in the Community.

Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 provides
that when an amendment is made to the NUTS classifi-
cation, the Member State concerned shall transmit to the
Commission the time series for the new regional classi-
fication to replace data already transmitted. The list of
the time series and their length shall be specified by the
Commission taking into account
feasibility of
providing them. These time series are to be supplied
within two years of the amendment to the NUTS classi-
fication.

the

Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 has been amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1888/2005 (2) by reason of
the
accession of
the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus,
Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia to the European Union and by Regulation (EC)
No 105/2007.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Statistical
Programme Committee, established by Council Decision
89/382/EEC, Euratom (3),

opinion

the

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Member States shall transmit to the Commission the time series
for the new regional breakdown in accordance with the list
specified in the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 January 2008.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 105/2007 (OJ L 39, 10.2.2007,
p. 1).

(2) OJ L 309, 25.11.2005, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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ANNEX

Required starting year by statistical domain

Domain

NUTS level 2

NUTS level 3

Agriculture

Demography

Regional Accounts

Household accounts

Education

Health — causes of death

Health — infrastructure

Labour Force Survey

Employment, Unemployment

Research and Development

Structural Business Survey

Tourism

Transport — road

Transport — rail

Transport — inland waterways

Environment — waste statistics

Environment — other

1990

1999

2000

2005

2007

2007

1990

1999

1999

2007

1994

2000

2000

2003

2007

2000

2005

2007

2004

2003