# 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

EU Regulation 2018/1685 · adopted 8 November 2018

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

## Introductory text

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), 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 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:

## 1 

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

## 2 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

## Signature

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

## Required starting year by statistical domain

Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1990 to 2012.
The transmission is not mandatory.
Transmission is not mandatory for reference years 1997 to 2011.
Domain
NUTS level 2
NUTS level 3
Agriculture
2013
Demography — population, live births, deaths
1990
1990
Labour market — employment, unemployment
2013
2013
Education
2013
Environment — waste treatment facilities
2014
Health — causes of death
1997
Health — infrastructure
1996
Health — patients
2003
Information society
2013
Regional economic accounts: Household accounts
2000
Regional economic accounts — Regional accounts
2000
2000
Science and technology — R & D expenditure and staff
2015
Tourism
2015

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/1685 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-1685
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