New mandate for the Working Group Item 2.1 of the agenda Teodora Brandmuller Eurostat Unit E4 WG on Regional, Urban and Rural Development statistics – October 2015

A bit of history… In 2001 the "Regional Accounts" Working Group adopted a proposal to set up one single Working Group titled "Regional Statistics"

Labour market areas The travel to work areas was already discussed in 2001

The NUTS … In 2001 the NUTS Regulation was only a plan COMMISSION DECISION of 30 May 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application oi Council Directive 93/23/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on pig population and production (94/432/EC) REGULATION (EU) No 692/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism and repealing Council Directive 95/57/EC (Text with EEA relevance) By 2015 the NUTS Regulation has proven its merits

The role "RESCO" is created The Statistical Program Committee (SPC) of November 2001 establishes the Regional Statistics Co-ordination Officer (RESCO) role In 2002 the Working Party discusses the tasks of RESCOs assurance of a smooth data flow of all types of regional statistics from data suppliers to Eurostat co-ordination with other data producing institutions in the Member State, assistance in exchanging meta-data, the distribution of information from Eurostat to the national partners. The decision of the SPC of November 2001 concerning the RESCO was summarised. The various tasks of the Regional Statistics Co-ordination Officer (RESCO) were explained: the assurance of a smooth data flow of all types of regional statistics from data suppliers to Eurostat, co-ordination with other data producing institutions in the Member State, working towards a harmonised data format of the data flow from NSOs, assistance in exchanging meta-data (methodological texts), the distribution of information from Eurostat to the national partners. The work of RESCOs is essential for efficient co-operation

A bit of history… In 2001 the "Regional Accounts" Working Group adopted a proposal to set up one single Working Group titled "Regional Statistics" In 2003 the name changed to "Regional and Urban Statistics"

Guess who presented 45 slides on the Urban Audit in 2004?

Dissemination 10 years ago…

A bit of history… In 2001 the "Regional Accounts Working Group" adopted a proposal to set up one single Working Group titled "Regional Statistics" In 2003 the name changed to "Regional and Urban Statistics Working Group" In 2011 the Working Group merged with the "Working Group on Rural Development"

In 2011 the new degree of urbanisation was discussed…

In 2011 the new degree of urbanisation was discussed…

2015 - New mandate Within the European Statistical System (ESS), the objective of the group is to support economic and social cohesion policy, rural development policy and maritime policy of the EU through the supply of high quality statistical indicators on European regions, cities and other sub-national areas to serve as an evidence base for policy making.

2015 - New mandate Within the European Statistical System (ESS), the objective of the group is to support economic and social cohesion policy, rural development policy and maritime policy of the EU through the supply of high quality statistical indicators on European regions, cities and other sub-national areas to serve as an evidence base for policy making.

2015 - New mandate Within the European Statistical System (ESS), the objective of the group is to support economic and social cohesion policy, rural development policy and maritime policy of the EU through the supply of high quality statistical indicators on European regions, cities and other sub-national areas to serve as an evidence base for policy making.

2015 - New mandate Within the European Statistical System (ESS), the objective of the group is to support economic and social cohesion policy, rural development policy and maritime policy of the EU through the supply of high quality statistical indicators on European regions, cities and other sub-national areas to serve as an evidence base for policy making.

2015 - New mandate Within the European Statistical System (ESS), the objective of the group is to support economic and social cohesion policy, rural development policy and maritime policy of the EU through the supply of high quality statistical indicators on European regions, cities and other sub-national areas to serve as an evidence base for policy making.

2015 - New mandate Within the European Statistical System (ESS), the objective of the group is to support economic and social cohesion policy, rural development policy and maritime policy of the EU through the supply of high quality statistical indicators on European regions, cities and other sub-national areas to serve as an evidence base for policy making.

Tasks of the Working group To organise the statistical information required to design, implement, monitor and evaluate spatially targeted EU policies To safeguard, implement and further develop the territorial classifications To develop methods in cooperation with the ESS and beyond that allow cost-effective production and user-friendly dissemination To further improve the quality To improve the relationship between users and producers of statistics

ESS Structure

DGs ESPON CoR ESS Produ-cers OECD Users Structure

DGs TFs ESPON CoR ESS Produ-cers OECD Users NUACs Structure

Structure TFs Users ESS CoR NUACs Produ-cers DGs OECD DIMESA ESSC ESPON CoR ESS Produ-cers OECD Users DIMESA NUACs ESSC Structure

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