NUTS amendment Torbioern.Carlquist@ec.europa.eu

Structure of my talk The rules of the NUTS Regulation The proposal for amendment 2006 Next steps

Chapter 1 The rules

NUTS rules EU Regulation from 2003 3 hierarchical levels (NUTS levels 1 - 3) Criteria: population thresholds Administrative regions – average size within country Non-administrative regions – size of individual region must comply

Population thresholds Level Minimum Maximum NUTS 1 3 million 7 million NUTS 2 800 000 NUTS 3 150 000

NUTS over time NUTS regions are frozen Possibility to review NUTS regions every 3 years In case of change, statistical data are re-calculated by Member States Length of time series depends on statistical domain (see doc. No. 12)

Chapter 2 The proposal

Proposals from Member States Deadline 30 June 2006 12 countries sent proposals via their Permanent Representative to Commission in Brussels Most proposals from MS accepted by Eurostat In addition: include an old proposal for NUTS 1 in SE

Commission proposal Annexes I (list of regions) and annex II (administrative status) to NUTS Regulation will be replaced Annex III (smaller adm units) will not be changed New NUTS codes are created by Eurostat Countries concerned (annex I): BE, CZ, DK, DE, ES, IT, NL, PL, SI, FI, SE, UK

The proposal in detail Territorial changes (112 new regions) Name changes (10 regions) Name corrections (12 regions) Biggest change is in Denmark NUTS 1 changed only in SE NUTS 2 changed only in DK, DE, SI, UK All other territorial changes are at NUTS level 3

The proposal in figures Level Closed codes New codes NUTS 1 1 3 NUTS 2 7 (+ 8) 10 (+ 8) NUTS 3 80 (+ 36) 99 (+ 36) (Brackets: number of changed codes due to territorial changes at next higher NUTS level)

Number of NUTS regions (EU-25) Level NUTS 2003 NUTS 2006 NUTS 1 89 91 NUTS 2 254 257 NUTS 3 1214 1233

Chapter 3 Next steps

Comitology procedure Vote in Statistical Programme Committee (SPC) on 16 November 2006 Parliament and Council will be informed Publication of legal text in Official Journal Eurostat’s RAMON server will be updated Eurostat PDF publication with maps (2007) Implementation of new NUTS from 1 Jan 2008

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