Working Group on Regional statistics NUTS 2006 Working Group on Regional statistics 16 October 2007 Torbioern.Carlquist@ec.europa.eu 16/10/2007

News on NUTS Review of NUTS for EU-25 New NUTS regions in Bulgaria and Romania Statistical regions in candidate countries Statistical regions in EFTA countries Statistical regions in other countries 16/10/2007

Review of NUTS in EU-25 An amending Regulation (EC)105/2007 Published in Official Journal L39 of 10/2/2007 Will enter in force on 1/1/2008 NewCronos will switch to NUTS-2006 from 26/11/2007 For practical reasons, the new NUTS may already be used in Eurostat surveys Eurostat publication NUTS-2006/EU27 with maps is in preparation A draft version is available as a room document The RAMON server will be updated 16/10/2007

NUTS in the new Member States An amending Regulation for Bulgaria and Romania Publication in Official Journal autumn 2007 Used by Eurostat from 1/1/2007 Eurostat publication NUTS-2006/EU27 with maps is in preparation Available in the room document 16/10/2007

Statistical regions in candidate countries Revised regions for Croatia agreed in March 2007 Discussion with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia during 2007; final proposal received Turkey – no change in the statistical regions New publication is planned for Statistical Regions in EFTA and candidate countries 16/10/2007

Statistical regions in EFTA countries Iceland will be split into two regions at level 3 in 2008 No other changes (CH, LI, NO) New publication is planned for Statistical Regions in EFTA and candidate countries 16/10/2007

Statistical regions in other countries Other countries: mainly remaining countries in Western Balkan which are not yet candidate countries Increasing need from Commission services for a regional division in Western Balkan countries These countries should propose a regional division, conformant with the NUTS criteria, to Eurostat 16/10/2007