1. Changes and Historical Time Series Oliver Heiden Eurostat.E4
NUTS 2013
Changes and Historical Time Series
Oliver Heiden Eurostat.E4
WG on Regional, Urban and Rural Development statistics – 2014 October

2. NUTS 2013 Applicable for data transmission 1 January 2015
Compared to NUTS 2010 new regions in:
Country
Legal act
As of HR
Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 of 13 May 2013 adapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of …statistics… by reason of the accession of Croatia
1/7/2013
DE, EL, FR PL, SI, UK
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1319/2013 of 9 December 2013
1/1/2015 PT
Commission Regulation (EU) No 868/2014 of 8 August 2014
1/1/2016
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3. NUTS 2013 with Portugal Legal "as of date" Solution
NUTS Portugal: 1/1/2016
Eurostat proposal: 1/1/2015
SJ (Legal Service of the Commission): 1/1/2016
Solution
Technical agreement between Portugal and Eurostat
Portugal sends data in new classification already as of 1/1/2015
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4. Territorial changes (code changes excluded)
NUTS 2013
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
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5. NUTS 2013
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6. NUTS Historical Time Series
Art. 5(5)
When an amendment is made to the NUTS classification, the Member State concerned shall 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 will be specified in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 7(2) taking into account the feasibility of providing them. These time series are to be supplied within two years of the amendment to the NUTS classification.
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7. NUTS Historical Time Series
Domain
NUTS level 2
NUTS level 3
Agriculture – agricultural accounts
2007
Agriculture – animal populations
2010
Agriculture – crop production
Agriculture – milk production
Agriculture – structure of agricultural holdings
20102
Demography
1990
Employment, unemployment
Environment – waste treatment facilities
Health – causes of death
1994
Health – infrastructure
19932
Health – patients
20002
Household accounts
2000
Information society
Regional accounts
Science and technology - R&D expenditure and staff
2011
Tourism
2012
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2 The transmission is not mandatory.

8. NUTS Historical Time Series
Internal discussions
Discussions with Member States
Commission internal agreement November
Translation: all languages
ESSC opinion (voting)
Scrutiny period: EP & Council
Adoption: Commission
Publication: Official Journal
Entry into force = publication 20 days
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