1. ETMS – Prague meeting 16 th of October 2012, Stockholm Nordregio collection (NUTS level)

2. Nordregio collection: gaps Goal: At least 3 years covered since year 2000 for ESPON countries Focus on filling gaps for the EU28+4 countries EU28+4: most of the identified gaps were for Lichtenstein followed by Switzerland Lichtenstein, still missing: -At-risk-of-poverty-rate -Income as PPS based on final consumption per inhabitant -Share of renewable energy in final consumption -Total Intramural R&D Expenditure in Millions of PPS Some variables and countries (Germany, UK): only data on NUTS1 level: “at-risk-of- poverty-rate” and “households with broadband access” indicators Changed administrative regions (Germany, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland): data is missing for certain regions for almost all variables. NSI’s contacted for estimations or methods to calculate not much response yet

3. Nordregio collection: RIATE (ESPON DB) RIATE (ESPON DB/M4D project) was contacted for calculated transfer keys from 2006 to 2010 NUTS and pre-2010 data Goal for ESPON to create longer time series (and to get more data in the NUTS2010 nomenclature) but due to a limited budget and the time needed not much has been completed Some reports produced on methods to deal with the changing regions due to “territorial split”. Four possible methods were highlighted in the “ESPON M4D – First Interim Report”: 1.the ESPON OLAP Cube 2.gridding and smoothing 3.The smallest common part 4.Estimation of missing values thanks to other statistical dimensions Technical report: “Missing data related to the change in NUTS structure” from June 2013 contains methods for possible usage Pre-2010 data: Not much from the NUTS2006 datasets, but that they have the entire NUTS1999 Eurostat DB

4. Western Balkans Western Balkans not in focus so far We could add population data that we already received (to be aggregated from LAU level), but time consuming Possibility to add ESPON ITAN data (collected by CNRS EVS) Further inquiries with NSI’s and similar institutes for data that we now miss entirely?

5. Specific issue: Share of Renewable Energy in Final Consumption Has been found on NUTS0 level only Eurostat: “Share of Renewable Energy in Final Energy Consumption by NUTS 2 regions - %” [env_rfec] is not comparable to “Share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption” [nrg_ind_335a] “Share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption” [nrg_ind_335a] seems to be of better quality and the one that is a EU2020 indicator  was chosen EEA and IEA: no regional data for this indicator NUTS0 level, other sources/indicators: 1.Energy prices? http://www.energy.eu/ “Natural gas, electricity and transport fuels prices”http://www.energy.eu/ 2.Housing and building-related energy consumption: http://www.entranze.enerdata.eu/ http://www.entranze.enerdata.eu/