LAMAS Working Group 29 June – 1 July 2016 Agenda Item 7.9 Regional issues Hartmut.Schroer@ec.europa.eu Eurostat

Overview NUTS 2013 implementation NUTS 2016 Degree of urbanisation Labour market areas Eurostat

NUTS 2013 implementation NUTS level 2: requirements Implementation from 2015Q1 Data 2010-2014 to be reported by the end of 2016 NUTS level 2: current status Reference years 2012 to 2014 already complete in NUTS 2013 2010 and 2011: SI and UK to be completed Eurostat

NUTS 2013 implementation NUTS level 3 EL and UK invited to contribute 2010-2014 data by the end of 2016 Eurostat

NUTS 2016 NUTS level 2 NUTS level 3 Splits or boundary shifts in IE, LT, HU, PL, UK Code changes in FR (reassignment NUTS 2 -> 1) NUTS level 3 Additional changes in DE, NL, FI Eurostat

NUTS 2016 Commission Regulation expected in October 2016 First transmission: 2018Q1 Back data to be reported by the end of 2019 Eurostat

Degree of urbanisation Changes to be implemented from 2017 2011 population grid 2014 LAU boundaries LAU -> DEGURBA mapping provided by Eurostat New DEGURBA labels Cities = Densely-populated areas Towns and suburbs = Intermediate density areas Rural areas = Thinly-populated areas Eurostat

Labour market areas (LMA) Development of common methodology Task force 2013-2015 Travel-to-work area concept Implementation in Member States Grants 2016-2017 More guidance / harmonisation necessary Eurostat

LAMAS is invited to: Take note of the implementation of NUTS 2013 Contribute NUTS 2013 time series, where necessary, by the end of 2016 Take note of the developments in the DEGURBA classification and of development of LMA methodology