1. NUTS amendment

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

3. Chapter 1
The rules

4. 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

5. Population thresholds
Level
Minimum
Maximum
NUTS 1
3 million
7 million
NUTS 2
NUTS 3

6. 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)

7. Chapter 2
The proposal

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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)

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

13. Chapter 3
Next steps

14. 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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