Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1961 of 16 July 2024 on uniform conditions for the transmission of time series for the new regional breakdown pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Date: 2024-07-16
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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2024/1961


17.7.2024







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/1961
of 16 July 2024
         
on uniform conditions for the transmission of time series for the new regional breakdown pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council


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 regional classification to enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the EU.












(2)


The Commission has amended the common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/674 (2) with effect from 1 January 2024.












(3)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the time series for the new regional breakdown in accordance with the Annex to this Implementing Regulation.


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, 16 July 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1, ELI http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2003/1059/oj.

(2)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/674 of 26 December 2022 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 87, 24.3.2023, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/674/oj).




ANNEX
REQUIRED STARTING YEAR BY STATISTICAL DOMAIN







Domain


NUTS level 2


NUTS level 3




Agriculture – animal production


2021


 




Agriculture – regional economic accounts


2021


 




Business demography


2022


2022




Demography – population, live births, deaths


1990 (1)



1990 (1)





Education


2013


 




Health – causes of death


2013


 




Healthcare utilisation – hospital discharges


2023


 




Labour market – employment, unemployment


2019


2019 (2)





Regional accounts – accounts by industry and by region


2000


2000




Regional accounts – household accounts


2000


 




Science and technology – R & D expenditure and personnel


2021


 




Structural business statistics


2022


 




Tourism


2020


2020




Waste statistics – waste treatment facilities


2018


 






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

(2)  The transmission is not mandatory up to reference year 2020.



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1961/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)