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    Commission Regulation (EC) No 11/2008 of 8 January 2008 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) on the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown

    OJ L 5, 9.1.2008, p. 13–14 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2008/11/oj

    9.1.2008   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    L 5/13


    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 11/2008

    of 8 January 2008

    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) on the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown

    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

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

    (2)

    Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 provides that when an amendment is made to the NUTS classification, the Member State concerned shall transmit to the Commission the time series for the new regional classification to replace data already transmitted. The list of the time series and their length shall 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)

    Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 has been amended by Regulation (EC) No 1888/2005 (2) by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union and by Regulation (EC) No 105/2007.

    (4)

    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee, established by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (3),

    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 20th 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 January 2008.

    For the Commission

    Joaquín ALMUNIA

    Member of the Commission


    (1)   OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 105/2007 (OJ L 39, 10.2.2007, p. 1).

    (2)   OJ L 309, 25.11.2005, p. 1.

    (3)   OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.


    ANNEX

    Required starting year by statistical domain

    Domain

    NUTS level 2

    NUTS level 3

    Agriculture

    2007

     

    Demography

    1990

    1990

    Regional Accounts

    1999

    1999

    Household accounts

    1999

     

    Education

    2007

     

    Health — causes of death

    1994

     

    Health — infrastructure

    2000

     

    Labour Force Survey

    2000

     

    Employment, Unemployment

     

    2000

    Research and Development

    2003

     

    Structural Business Survey

    2007

     

    Tourism

    2000

    2005

    Transport — road

     

    2007

    Transport — rail

    2005

     

    Transport — inland waterways

    2007

     

    Environment — waste statistics

    2004

     

    Environment — other

    2003

     


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