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Official Journal of the European Union
9.11.2012
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,
feasibility of providing them. These time series are to be
supplied within two years of the amendment to the
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
NUTS classification.
Union,
(3) The
NUTS
classification
has
been
amended
by
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the
Commission Regulation (EU) No 31/2011
( 2 ) with
European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on
effect from 1 January 2012.
the establishment of a common classification of territorial units
for statistics (NUTS) ( 1 ), and in particular Article 5(5) thereof,
(4) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical
Whereas:
System Committee,
(1) Regulation
(EC)
No
1059/2003
constitutes
the
legal HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
framework for the regional classification in order to
enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of
Article 1
harmonised regional statistics in the Union.
Member States shall transmit to the Commission the time series
for the new regional breakdown in accordance with the list
(2) According
to
Article
5(5)
of
Regulation
(EC)
No specified in the Annex.
1059/2003, when an amendment is made to the NUTS
classification, the Member State concerned should
Article 2
transmit to the Commission the time series for the
new regional breakdown to replace data already trans
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
mitted. The list of the time series and their length should
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
be specified by the Commission taking into account 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.

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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
2009
and staff
Tourism 2004 2004
( 1 ) The transmission is not mandatory.

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