1. NUTS 2010 The forthcoming amendment
07/05/2019
Oliver HEIDEN

2. Amendment of the Regulation
NUTS Regulation (EC) 1059/2003
Annex I
Rules how to change it are included in the Regulation
Article 5, new legislative process
Review cycle of minimum 3 years
This time 4 years
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3. Actors Commission initiates any EU legislation
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Actors
Commission initiates any EU legislation
Eurostat (Unit E4) manages NUTS Regulation
Formal notification about changes comes from Member States via Ambassadors
Secretariat General of the Commission
European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) former SPC
Council and Parliament
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4. Notifications from MS Principles (Article 5.3):
Increase comparability
Keep NUTS regions unchanged (stability)
Informal discussions NSI - EUROSTAT
Written notification from Permanent Representation to the SG of the Commission
Names of regions, population, relation to other NUTS levels, preferably maps
Justification, e.g. administrative re-organisation
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5. NUTS 2 regions across EU27
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6. Working Group on Regional and Urban Statistics 8-9 October 2009

7. NUTS 3 regions across EU27
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8. Working Group on Regional and Urban Statistics 8-9 October 2009

9. Deviations from thresholds 
Total and percentage
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10. Deviations from thresholds 
By country
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11. Legislative process NEW: Regulatory procedure with scrutiny
European Statistical System Committee gives its view (comitology procedure)
Council and Parliament can reject the proposal
Published as amending Regulation
Commission Regulation will settle starting year by statistical domain for time series
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12. Time schedule Member States send notifications before 5 March 2010
Commission makes a proposal in May 2010
Implementation from January 2012
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13. State of play
Some countries already sent notifications or started an informal discussion with Eurostat
It is most probable that there will be a revision of the NUTS in several Member States
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14. Type of changes Territorial changes of regions in the NUTS
Territorial re-organisation
LAU-change effecting NUTS
1% rule: small boundary modifications do not lead to a change of the Regulation
Label changes
Correction of spelling of names
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15.  Territorial re-organisation
Administrative re-organisation of Saxony (NUTS 3) from 1 July 2008
NEW
OLD
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16.  LAU-change effecting NUTS
trans-border merge of two municipalities:
s-Gravendeel
Binnenmaas
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17. Thank you for your attention
Oliver HEIDEN – Working Group on Regional and Urban Statistics 8-9 October 2009