1. LAU and SIRE Agenda: 5.3; Document 11
LAU and SIRE pt. 5.3
LAU and SIRE Agenda: 5.3; Document 11
revised version of 29 October 2004 (slide 4)

2. Chapter 1
LAU

3. Local Administrative Units (LAU)
LAU level 2 = former NUTS 5
LAU level 1 = former NUTS 4 (and maybe new NUTS 4?)
NUTS Regulation, annex 3, speaks about ”Smaller Administrative Units” – these are LAU 2 in most countries
LAU codes will be created by Eurostat

4. Lists of LAU NUTS Regulation article 4
Commission shall publish components of NUTS in terms of “Smaller Administrative Units”
Lists for EU-15 available on RAMON server
LAU data requests
New Member States: request was sent, deadline = 12 November 2004
Old Member States: request for 2004 data will be sent end of the year (like last year)

5. Chapter 2
SIRE database

6. SIRE database « Système d’information Infra-Régionale Européenne »
Contains the codes of LAU 1 and LAU 2
Population Census data 1981, 1991, 2001
Stored in an Oracle database
For internal use by the Commission

7. Evolution of codes Reports on changes to LAU from MS CONC/MODA format
Separate software (NPS) to store the history of the nomenclature of LAU
Both national codes and LAU codes

8. Population census data in SIRE
Community Population Census Programme
10-yearly interval, last 2000/2001
Three tables for LAU 2
Two tables for urban agglomerations
Countries without census – register data or other solutions
Delays of delivery of census data from many countries
Table 38a (total pop.) missing for BG,MT,LI

9. Annual data for LAU Internal need for up-to-date figures on
Surface area
Total population
Some countries included these data in the LAU lists
Used for density calculations in the rural project (doc. 20)
Stored in the SIRE database

10. PHARE - Local Territorial Units
Successful project with PHARE countries in
New PHARE project for technical work to integrate data into SIRE database
Cyprus and Malta not covered by PHARE
Separate co-operation project welcome for CY, MT
Turkey has co-op. project (USST) and agreement on LAU has been reached

11. Conclusions LAU lists will be asked from MS each year
Deadline for new MS: 12 November 2004
Please include area and population in LAU lists!
Remaining census data should be sent by MS
MS should continue to send CONC/MODA files to Eurostat
Co-operation project about Local Territorial Units with CY and MT would be welcome

12. Thanks for listening !
Any Questions ?