1. Working Group on regional, urban and rural development statistics
Item 5.2 The draft NUTS historical time series regulation

2. NUTS 2016 NUTS 2016 (Comm. Reg. 2016/2066) adopted 21.11.2016
published (OJ)
date of effect
date of effect (transmission of data)
deadline transmission of time series

3. NUTS 2016 implementation
Official start date transmission of data:
Between and : intersection period with mixed data on NUTS 2013 and NUTS 2016 in Eurobase
On , HTS will be delivered on NUTS 2016; NUTS 2013 data should disappear (or be specifically labelled)

4. Historical time series (HTS) for new NUTS regions
The NUTS Regulation (art. 5.5) specifies that:
- in case of amendments to the NUTS,
- the Member States concerned shall transmit the historic data for the new breakdown;
- the list of the data to be provided and their length are to be specified in an implementing act under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny,
- taking into account the feasibility of providing them;
- data is to be supplied within two years after the amendment to the NUTS (= 1 January 2020).

5. HTS; starting year by statistical domain, NUTS 2016
[2] The transmission is not mandatory.
[3] Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1990 to 2012.
[4] Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1997 to 2013.
Domain
NUTS level 2
NUTS level 3
Agriculture – agricultural accounts
20102
Agriculture – animal populations
2013
Agriculture – crop production
2010
Agriculture – milk production
Agriculture – structure of agricultural holdings
20132
Demography – population, live births, deaths
19903
Labour market - employment, unemployment
Education
Environment – waste treatment facilities
Health – causes of death
19974
Health – infrastructure
19962
Health – patients
20032
Information society
Regional economic accounts: Household accounts
2003
Regional economic accounts - Regional accounts
2000
Science and technology - R&D expenditure and staff
2014
Tourism
2015