Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1685 of 8 November 2018 on uniform conditions for the transmission of time series for the new regional breakdown pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003
Date: 2018-11-08
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU Member State, EU statistics, administrative unit, classification, data collection, regional statistics, statistical method, statistical nomenclature








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9.11.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 279/33








            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1685
of 8 November 2018
         
on uniform conditions for the transmission of time series for the new regional breakdown pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


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,

Whereas:







(1)


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












(2)


The Commission has amended the common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) by Regulation (EU) 2016/2066 (2) with effect from 1 January 2018.












(3)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,





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 Annex.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 8 November 2018.


For the Commission


The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER
            





(1)  
            OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1 as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2017/2391 (OJ L 350, 29.12.2017, p. 1).

(2)  Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2066 of 21 November 2016 amending the annexes to 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) (OJ L 322, 29.11.2016, p. 1).




ANNEX

Required starting year by statistical domain








Domain


NUTS level 2


NUTS level 3




Agriculture


2013


 




Demography — population, live births, deaths


1990 (1)



1990 (1)





Labour market — employment, unemployment


2013


2013 (2)





Education


2013


 




Environment — waste treatment facilities


2014


 




Health — causes of death


1997 (3)



 




Health — infrastructure


1996 (2)



 




Health — patients


2003 (2)



 




Information society


2013 (2)



 




Regional economic accounts: Household accounts


2000


 




Regional economic accounts — Regional accounts


2000


2000




Science and technology — R & D expenditure and staff


2015


 




Tourism


2015


 






(1)  Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1990 to 2012.

(2)  The transmission is not mandatory.

(3)  Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1997 to 2011.