1. NUTS Agenda: 5.1; Document 9

2. Chapter 1
Amendment

3. Amendment to NUTS Regulation
Amendment of annexes due to enlargement
Annex 1 – codes and names of regions
Annex 2 – existing administrative units
Annex 3 – smaller administrative units

4. Annex 1 Covers 10 new Member States
To be inserted in NUTS Regulation 1059/2003
Based on previous “Statistical Regions”
Poland and Hungary introduced NUTS 1
Latvia changed NUTS 3 regions
Errors in spelling of names corrected

5. Annexes 2 and 3 Complete for 25 EU countries (replacement)
Administrative units – important for the possibility to change NUTS
Smaller administrative units – only 1 level is mentioned in annex 3, normally this is LAU 2

6. Legal procedure Commission proposal of 15/09/2004
European Parliament may propose changes
Council can approve the act by qualified majority
Council has made an informal consultation with Member States (NSIs involved) 15/10/2004
Final version to be published in Official Journal

8. Regional statistical data
Codes as in NUTS 2003 / EU25 already in use
All data deliveries should follow these codes
If there are code changes in the final version of the NUTS amendment, Eurostat will update its databases and ask MS to use the final codes

9. Next opportunity for revisions
NUTS frozen for a minimum of 3 years
New MS: Only 2 years freezing period in the first round
Commission can propose changes to NUTS in 2006
Any change will take effect on 1/1/2008

10. Chapter 2
NUTS publication

11. NUTS 2003 / EU25 PDF format only (4 PDF files)
Paper copy to delegates of this WG
Stored on Eurostat web site
The publication is not the legal reference!

12. RAMON server
Lists of NUTS regions and Statistical Regions (EFTA and CCs)
2 sets of maps – overview maps and clickable maps
Statistical regions
“Publication” of LAU lists

13. Statistical regions
Defined for EFTA and for 3 candidate countries: BG, RO, TR
New CCs will be added after agreement on regions with Eurostat
Bulgaria will have 2 level 1 regions from 1 January 2005
Romania – need for level 1 regions!
New version of “Statistical Regions” will be published by Eurostat

14. Conclusions For information to delegates:
NUTS is in the process to be amended due to enlargement
In practice, NUTS 2003 / EU25 is already in use and all regional data deliveries should respect the new codes
Next window of opportunity to change NUTS is in 2006, with effect from 1/1/2008
Romania should propose level 1 regions

15. Thanks for listening !
Any Questions ?