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

2. NUTS 2013 Regular NUTS 2013 (Reg. 1319/2013)
Extraordinary amendment PT (Reg. 868/2014)
signed
Published (OJ)
date of effect
date of effect (transmission of data)
Legal:
Actual:

3. 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

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

6. 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).

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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?

11. 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
NUTS 3

12. 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.