CELEX: 32015R2381
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/2381 of 17 December 2015 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and 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

18.12.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 332/52
            
         COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2015/2381
   of 17 December 2015
   implementing Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and 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 2 years of the amendment to the NUTS classification.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               The NUTS classification has been amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1319/2013 (2) with effect from 1 January 2015 and Commission Regulation (EU) No 868/2014 (3) with effect from 1 January 2016.
            
         
               (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, 17 December 2015.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         
            The President
         
         Jean-Claude JUNCKER
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1.
   
      (2)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 1319/2013 of 9 December 2013 amending 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 342, 18.12.2013, p. 1).
   
      (3)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 868/2014 of 8 August 2014 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 241, 13.8.2014, p. 1).
   
      ANNEX
      
         Required starting year by statistical domain
      
      
                  Domain
               
               
                  NUTS level 2
               
               
                  NUTS level 3
               
            
                  Agriculture — agricultural accounts
               
               
                  2007 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — animal populations
               
               
                  2010
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — crop production
               
               
                  2007
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — milk production
               
               
                  2010
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Agriculture — structure of agricultural holdings
               
               
                  2010
               
               
                  2010 (1)
                  
               
            
                  Demography — population, live births, deaths
               
               
                  1990 (2)
                  
               
               
                  1990 (2)
                  
               
            
                  Labour market — employment, unemployment
               
               
                  2010
               
               
                  2010 (1)
                  
               
            
                  Environment — waste treatment facilities
               
               
                  2010
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — causes of death
               
               
                  1994 (3)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — infrastructure
               
               
                  1993 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Health — patients
               
               
                  2000 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Information society
               
               
                  2010 (1)
                  
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Regional economic accounts — Household accounts
               
               
                  2000
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Regional economic accounts — Regional accounts
               
               
                  2000
               
               
                  2000
               
            
                  Science and technology — R & D expenditure and staff
               
               
                  2011
               
               
                   
               
            
                  Tourism
               
               
                  2012
               
               
                   
               
            
         (1)  The transmission is not mandatory.
      
         (2)  The transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1990 to 2012.
      
         (3)  The transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1994 to 2010.