COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1685

of 8 November 2018

on uniform conditions for the transmission of time series for the new regional breakdown pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (1), and in particular Article 5(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 provides the legal framework for the regional classification in order to enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the Union.

(2) The Commission has amended the common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) by Regulation (EU) 2016/2066 (2) with effect from 1 January 2018.

(3) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Member States shall transmit to the Commission the time series for the new regional breakdown in accordance with the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the

Official Journal of the European Union

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 November 2018.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER

(1)

OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1

as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2017/2391 (

OJ L 350, 29.12.2017, p. 1

(2) Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2066 of 21 November 2016 amending the annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (

OJ L 322, 29.11.2016, p. 1

ANNEX

Required starting year by statistical domain

Domain	NUTS level 2	NUTS level 3
Agriculture	2013
Demography — population, live births, deaths	1990(1)	1990(1)
Labour market — employment, unemployment	2013	2013(2)
Education	2013
Environment — waste treatment facilities	2014
Health — causes of death	1997(3)
Health — infrastructure	1996(2)
Health — patients	2003(2)
Information society	2013(2)
Regional economic accounts: Household accounts	2000
Regional economic accounts — Regional accounts	2000	2000
Science and technology — R & D expenditure and staff	2015
Tourism	2015

(1) Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1990 to 2012.

(2) The transmission is not mandatory.

(3) Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1997 to 2011.