COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1046/2012

of 8 November 2012

implementing 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), as regards the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown

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 constitutes the legal framework for the regional classification in order to enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the Union.

(2) According to Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003, when an amendment is made to the NUTS classification, the Member State concerned should transmit to the Commission the time series for the new regional breakdown to replace data already transmitted. The list of the time series and their length should be specified by the Commission taking into account the feasibility of providing them. These time series are to be supplied within two years of the amendment to the NUTS classification.

(3) The NUTS classification has been amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 31/2011(2) with effect from 1 January 2012.

(4) 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 list specified in 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 2012.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel BARROSO

(1)

OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1

(2)

OJ L 13, 18.1.2011, p. 3

ANNEX

Required starting year by statistical domain

Domain	NUTS level 2	NUTS level 3
Agriculture — agricultural accounts	2007(1)
Agriculture — animal populations	2007
Agriculture — crop production	2007
Agriculture — milk production	2010
Agriculture — structure of agricultural holdings	2007
Demography	1990(1)	1990(1)
Employment, unemployment	2005	2005(1)
Environment — solid waste	2004
Health — causes of death	1994(1)
Health — infrastructure	1993(1)
Health — patients	2000(1)
Household accounts	2000
Information society	2007(1)
Regional accounts	2000	2000
Science and technology — R & D expenditure and staff	2009
Tourism	2004	2004

(1) The transmission is not mandatory.