CELEX: 32012R1046
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1046/2012 of 8 November 2012 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), as regards the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown

9.11.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 310/34
            
         COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1046/2012
   of 8 November 2012
   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), as regards the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown
   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 constitutes the legal framework for the regional classification in order to enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the Union.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               According to Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003, when an amendment is made to the NUTS classification, the Member State concerned should transmit to the Commission the time series for the new regional breakdown to replace data already transmitted. The list of the time series and their length should 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)
            
            
               The NUTS classification has been amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 31/2011 (2) with effect from 1 January 2012.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               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 list specified in 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 2012.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         
            The President
         
         José Manuel BARROSO
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 13, 18.1.2011, p. 3.
   
      ANNEX
      
         Required starting year by statistical domain
      
      
                  Domain
               
               
                  NUTS level 2
               
               
                  NUTS level 3
               
            
                  Agriculture — agricultural accounts
               
               
                  2007 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — animal populations
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — crop production
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — milk production
               
               
                  2010
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — structure of agricultural holdings
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Demography
               
               
                  1990 (1)
                  
               
               
                  1990 (1)
                  
               
            
                  Employment, unemployment
               
               
                  2005
               
               
                  2005 (1)
                  
               
            
                  Environment — solid waste
               
               
                  2004
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — causes of death
               
               
                  1994 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — infrastructure
               
               
                  1993 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — patients
               
               
                  2000 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Household accounts
               
               
                  2000
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Information society
               
               
                  2007 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Regional accounts
               
               
                  2000
               
               
                  2000
               
            
                  Science and technology — R & D expenditure and staff
               
               
                  2009
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Tourism
               
               
                  2004
               
               
                  2004
               
            
         (1)  The transmission is not mandatory.