CELEX: 32020R1703
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1703 of 13 November 2020 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

16.11.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 382/7
               
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/1703
         of 13 November 2020
         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 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 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1755 (2) with effect from 1 January 2021.
                  
               
                     (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 (Eurostat) the time series for the new regional breakdown in accordance with the Annex by 1 January 2023.
         
         
            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, 13 November 2020.
            
               
                  For the Commission
               
               
                  The President
               
               Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 154, 21.6.2003.
         
            (2)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1755 of 8 August 2019 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 270, 24.10.2019, p. 1).
      
      
         
            ANNEX
            
               Required starting year by statistical domain
            
            
                        Domain
                     
                     
                        NUTS level 2
                     
                     
                        NUTS level 3
                     
                  
                        Agriculture
                     
                     
                        2016
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Demography – population, live births, deaths
                     
                     
                        1990 (1)
                        
                     
                     
                        1990 (2)
                        
                     
                  
                        Labour market – employment, unemployment
                     
                     
                        2016
                     
                     
                        2016 (3)
                        
                     
                  
                        Education
                     
                     
                        2013
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Environment – waste treatment facilities
                     
                     
                        2018
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Health – causes of death
                     
                     
                        2011
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Health – infrastructure
                     
                     
                        1996 (4)
                        
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Health – patients
                     
                     
                        2003 (5)
                        
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Information society
                     
                     
                        2016 (6)
                        
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Regional accounts – Household accounts by region
                     
                     
                        2000
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Regional accounts – Accounts by industry and by region
                     
                     
                        2000
                     
                     
                        2000
                     
                  
                        Science and technology – R & D expenditure and personnel
                     
                     
                        2016
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        Tourism
                     
                     
                        2018
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
               (1)  Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1990 to 2012.
            
               (2)  Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1990 to 2012.
            
               (3)  The transmission is not mandatory.
            
               (4)  The transmission is not mandatory.
            
               (5)  The transmission is not mandatory.
            
               (6)  The transmission is not mandatory.