CELEX: 32008R0011
Language: en
Date: 2008-01-08 00:00:00
Title: 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

9.1.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 5/13
            
         
      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
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   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 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.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 provides that when an amendment is made to the NUTS classification, the Member State concerned shall transmit to the Commission the time series for the new regional classification to replace data already transmitted. The list of the time series and their length shall be specified by the Commission taking into account the feasibility of providing them. These time series are to be supplied within two years of the amendment to the NUTS classification.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               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.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee, established by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (3),
            
         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 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 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.
   
      ANNEX
      Required starting year by statistical domain
      
                  Domain
               
               
                  NUTS level 2
               
               
                  NUTS level 3
               
            
                  Agriculture
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Demography
               
               
                  1990
               
               
                  1990
               
            
                  Regional Accounts
               
               
                  1999
               
               
                  1999
               
            
                  Household accounts
               
               
                  1999
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Education
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — causes of death
               
               
                  1994
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — infrastructure
               
               
                  2000
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Labour Force Survey
               
               
                  2000
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Employment, Unemployment
               
               
                   
               
               
                  2000
               
            
                  Research and Development
               
               
                  2003
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Structural Business Survey
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Tourism
               
               
                  2000
               
               
                  2005
               
            
                  Transport — road
               
               
                   
               
               
                  2007
               
            
                  Transport — rail
               
               
                  2005
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Transport — inland waterways
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Environment — waste statistics
               
               
                  2004
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Environment — other
               
               
                  2003