COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/1961

of 16 July 2024

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

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 regional classification to enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the EU.

(2) The Commission has amended the common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/674 (2) with effect from 1 January 2024.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the time series for the new regional breakdown in accordance with the Annex to this Implementing Regulation.

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, 16 July 2024.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1)

OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1

, ELI

http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2003/1059/oj

(2) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/674 of 26 December 2022 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 87, 24.3.2023, p. 1

, ELI:

http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/674/oj

ANNEX

REQUIRED STARTING YEAR BY STATISTICAL DOMAIN

Domain	NUTS level 2	NUTS level 3
Agriculture – animal production	2021
Agriculture – regional economic accounts	2021
Business demography	2022	2022
Demography – population, live births, deaths	1990(1)	1990(1)
Education	2013
Health – causes of death	2013
Healthcare utilisation – hospital discharges	2023
Labour market – employment, unemployment	2019	2019(2)
Regional accounts – accounts by industry and by region	2000	2000
Regional accounts – household accounts	2000
Science and technology – R & D expenditure and personnel	2021
Structural business statistics	2022
Tourism	2020	2020
Waste statistics – waste treatment facilities	2018

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

(2) The transmission is not mandatory up to reference year 2020.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1961/oj

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