Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 17/01/2019 Changes in NUTS …and consequences Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" Oliver HEIDEN

Consequences of consequences… Change in the territorial breakdown of a country NUTS amendment Requirements for data supply Forward: to avoid breaks in time series! Backward: to build long time series! 1 2 a b Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

1. Change in a territorial breakdown: Example ITALY Provincia di Milano administrative change (split) Provincia di Monza e della Brianza 7 June 2009 Consequences for NUTS ITC45 Milano NUTS change on level 3 split to ITC4C and ITC4D 1 January 2012 Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

1. Change in a territorial breakdown: General National Administrative Structure changes: Can happen at any time Consequences for NUTS The Member State informs the Commission (Art. 5.1 of NUTS Regulation) The Commission adjusts the NUTS classification in the next amendment (Art. 5.4) not more often than every 3 years Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

2a. Consequences for data supply: Forward to avoid breaks in time series! Data supply follows the valid NUTS classification currently: NUTS 2006 from 1 January 2012: NUTS 2010 Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

2a. Consequences for data supply: Example Procedure for Italy: Until 31 December 2011 data needs to be supplied for the region ITC45 Milano As of 1 January 2012 data needs to be supplied for the regions ITC4C Milano and ITC4D Monza e della Brianza Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

2b. Consequences for data supply: Backward to build long time series! Art 5.5 on Historical time series specifies that in case of NUTS change ITC45 splits into ITC4C and ITC4D the NSI supplies historical data for the new breakdown ITC4C, ITC4D starting with a date settled by comitology see next slide within two years of the amendment 1 January 2014 Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

2b. Consequences for data supply: First years Domain NUTS 2 NUTS 3 Agriculture - milk production 2010 Agriculture - other 2007 Demography 1990 Regional accounts 2000 Household accounts Health - causes of death 1994 Health - infrastructure 1993 Health - patients Labour Force Survey Employment, unemployment Science and technology - R&D expenditure and staff 2009 Information society Tourism 2004 Environment - solid waste Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

2b. Consequences for data supply: NUTS 2010 Very few changes No NUTS changes in 18 Member States Only code or name changes in 3 Member States Minor changes in the remaining 6 Member States: Country NUTS-1 NUTS-2 NUTS-3 DE 1 17 IT 4 LV change in Annex III NL 3 FI 2 UK 7  5 32 Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

2b. Consequences for data supply: Example Procedure for Italy: Until 1 January 2014 data needs to be back casted for the regions ITC4C Milano and ITC4D Monza e della Brianza until the years as specified in the relevant Commission regulation Oliver HEIDEN – Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" 15 February 2011

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