1. Amendment to the NUTS Regulation Oliver Heiden Eurostat.E4
TERCET
Amendment to the NUTS Regulation
Oliver Heiden Eurostat.E4
WG on Regional, Urban and Rural Development statistics – 2014 October

2. The need to adapt Policy need Policy connected with funding
Concentration on specific regions, areas
Statistics with increased statistical detail
Policy connected with funding
E.g. Comm. Del. Reg. (EU) No 522/2014
No legal certainty for defining eligibility
Funding becomes ambiguous and opportune
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3. The obstacle NUTS serves European purposes excellently
Harmonisation of regional European Statistics
Target of Cohesion Policy funding
Reopening discussion on NUTS Regulation should be avoided
Risk of brake in methodology
Risk to conclude with a weaker regulation
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4. Classifications and typologies
Typology
Name
Coverage
Value
Territorial type
NUTS
regions
Rural-Urban typology
full
ternary
non-aggregating
Maritime regions
partial
 binary
Metropolitan regions
aggregating
LAU
areas
Degree of urbanisation
Coastal areas
Cities
Larger urban zones
Greater city
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5. Proposed solution New legal provisions to include
Classifications
Typologies
Amendment of the NUTS Regulation
Only addition of new parts
Existing articles cannot change
New legal architecture
TERCET = TERritorial Classifications and Typologies
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6. Amendment of the NUTS Regulation
Rules for establishing and amending NUTS classification
Implementing act: NUTS regions
NUTS Regulation + new articles:
Rules for establishing and amending NUTS classification and typologies, LAU equivalents, the grid
Implementing (delegated) act:
NUTS regions, Typologies, City definitions, Minimum data requirements for cities
Methodological manual:
Details about Typologies’, Cities, and data requirements management
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7. Amending NUTS: new articles
Article 1 new paragraph 3
The LAU classification and the statistical grid complement the NUTS classification. The LAU classification as referred to in Annex III is the common statistical classification of territorial units on local level enabling collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised European statistics on local level. The statistical grid is the common statistical grid of enabling the dissemination of harmonised European grid statistics.
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8. Amending NUTS: new articles
Article 1 new paragraph 4
Typologies complement the NUTS and LAU classifications by attributing types to the territorial units based on the functional characteristics on the regional or local level to increase the informative value of European statistics. Statistical grids are a neutral system of statistical geographies and complement typologies and classifications for functional analysis. They are also used to define population based typologies.
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9. Amending NUTS: new articles
Article 2 replaced paragraph 5
The LAU classification subdivides in each Member State the NUTS level 3 into maximum two further levels of detail of territorial units as laid down in Annex III, The Member State transmit to the Commission the national LAU level, of which at least one is administrative according to Article 3(2). The LAU classification adopts for each territorial unit on local level the code and name used by the national statistical office of respective the Member State. Measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation and adapting Annex III shall be adopted within the framework of the procedure referred to in Article 3(4).
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10. Amending NUTS: new articles
Article 4 deleted
Article 5 new paragraph added
Within the first six months of each year, Member States shall transmit to the Commission the geographical information for all changes of the LAU territorial units for the previous year along with the total resident population effected and in so doing shall respect the electronic data format requested by the Commission.
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11. Amending NUTS: new articles
New Article 5a
The Commission defines common European typologies of territorial units for the sake of harmonised European statistics at the regional and local level. The definition of typologies shall lead to a mutually exclusive attribution of types. Typologies are administered and disseminated by the Commission.
Typologies for the NUTS and LAU classifications are laid down in Annex IV.
Member States shall transmit data set out in Annex V to the Commission (Eurostat) about typologies. The arrangements for the data transmission, including the applicable time limits and the electronic data format is set out in Annex V.
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12. Amending NUTS: new articles
New Article 5a European typologies
Measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation and adapting Annex IV and V shall be adopted within the framework of the procedure referred to in Article 3(4).
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13. Amending NUTS: new articles
New Article 5b Grids
Grid-data that is disseminated for the sake of European statistics shall make use of the harmonised definition in the Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) and its implementing Regulations.
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14. Amending NUTS: new annexes
Article 7 two new points
elaboration of a Manual on regional and local typologies approved by the Member States for ensuring the high quality of European statistics related to typologies;
publishing of both the Manual on regional and local typologies as well as the resulting typologies.
Article 8 deleted
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15. Amending NUTS: new annexes
Annex III: restructured
Annex IV: LAU-2 and NUTS-3 typologies
Reference to the methodological manual
Annex V: Minimum data requirements for cities
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16. October 2014 Step in the process Actors Timing
Presenting the draft amending regulation to the Working Party on Regional, Urban and Rural Development
Eurostat
October 2014
Collecting the view of NSIs on the proposed draft
Requesting the approval of the Directors Meeting of Eurostat for the draft
November 2014
Agenda planning / Road map
Consultation of the Director's meeting on Environment Statistics and Accounts (DIMESA)
DIMESA
First half of 2015
Decision on Impact Assessment
DG SJ
Inter-service consultation
Commission
April 2015
Presentation to the ESS Committee
ESS Committee
May 2015
Commission adoption
June 2015
Legislative path in the Council and the European Parliament
European Parliament, Council
July January 2016
Adoption
Spring 2016
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17. Thank you for your attention!
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