Working Group on regional, urban and rural development statistics Item 5.1 NUTS Regulation: NUTS 2013, HTS, NUTS 2016

NUTS 2013 Regular NUTS 2013 (Reg. 1319/2013) Extraordinary amendment PT (Reg. 868/2014) signed 9.12.2013 8.8.2014 Published (OJ) 18.12.2013 13.8.2014 date of effect 7.1.2014 2.9.2014 date of effect (transmission of data) 1.1.2015 Legal: 1.1.2016 Actual: 1.1.2015

Territorial changes (code changes excluded) NUTS 2013 revision round Territorial changes (code changes excluded) NUTS 1 NUTS 2 NUTS 3 DE 16  6 EL 2  2 11  12 FR 1  1 1  2 1  2 PL 13  19 SI 4  4 UK 2  5 14  48 PT 21  16 Ʃ 3  3 5  7 80  107 HR + 1 + 2 + 21

NUTS 2013 implementation Official start date transmission of data: 01.01.2015 As of today, first datasets include NUTS 2013 codes (AGRI (livestock and milk production), TOUR) Between 01.01.2015 and 01.01.2017: intersection period with mixed data on NUTS 2010 and NUTS 2013 in Eurobase On 01.01.2017, HTS will be delivered on NUTS 2013; NUTS 2010 should disappear

Historical time series (HTS) for new NUTS regions The NUTS Regulation (art. 5.5) specifies that: - in case of amendments to the NUTS, - the Member States concerned (DE, EL, FR, PL, SI, UK and PT) shall transmit the historic data for the new breakdown; - the list of the data to be provided and their length are to be specified in an implementing act under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, - taking into account the feasibility of providing them; - data is to be supplied within two years after the amendment to the NUTS (= 1 January 2017, PT 1 January 2018/2017).

HTS; starting year by statistical domain, NUTS 2013 Agriculture – agricultural accounts 2007[1] Agriculture – animal populations 2010 Agriculture – crop production 2007 Agriculture – milk production Agriculture – structure of agricultural holdings 2010[1] Demography – population, live births, deaths 1990[2] Labour market – employment, unemployment Environment – waste treatment facilities Health – causes of death 1994[3] Health – infrastructure 1993[1] Health – patients 2000[1] Information Society Regional economic accounts – Household accounts 2000 Regional economic accounts – Regional accounts 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.

HTS on NUTS 2013 Action Timing (provisional) Vote by the ESSC by oral procedure (1 abstention) May 2015 Scrutiny period of the EP/Council July – October 2015 Launch written procedure for adoption by the Commission October 2015 Adoption by Commission October / November 2015 Entry into force / publication in Official Journal November / December 2015 HTS delivery (2 yrs after start data delivery on new NUTS) January 2017

NUTS 2016 - Offical NUTS amendment procedure launched in July 2015 - Deadline to introduce proposals: 1 February 2016 - Finalisation of legislative procedure in Autumn 2016 - Application as concerning the transmission of data: 1 January 2018 - Entry into force of HTS on NUTS 2016 expected for 1 January 2020

Guidelines for proposals Hierarchical structure: each level of NUTS is a subdivision of the higher level Are the units of a level administrative? If yes: Do they cover the whole territory of the country? Does the average population size of the units comply with the thresholds? If no: Are they an aggregation of smaller contiguous administrative units, taking into account special circumstances? Do the population sizes of the new aggregated units comply with the thresholds? If no: do special circumstances exist?

Population sizes and special circumstances - population size thresholds: - special circumstances: Geographical, socio-economic, historical, cultural or environmental Level Minimum Maximum NUTS 1 3 million 7 million NUTS 2 800 000 NUTS 3 150 000

NUTS 2016 - too late for the 2020+ programming period: - Commission has to submit its proposal on the post-2020 multi-annual financial framework before 01/01/2018 (article 25 of (MFF) Regulation (Reg. 1311/2013)); - Hence, the Cohesion Policy component of this proposal will be based on (regional) data available during the year 2017 (i.e. most probably regional GDP and population data, labour market data and possibly other regional indicators, typically released in Spring); - These data will have to refer to the NUTS breakdown valid at that moment (i.e. the current one). Result: The next NUTS modification will not have any direct impact on the contents of the Commission proposal for the future MFF.