European statistical system: common classification of territorial units for statistics NUTS

IMPLEMENTING ACT: Commission Regulation (EC) No 105/2007 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).

CONTENT: to recall, Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 constitutes the legal framework for the regional classification for the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the Community. The territorial units used for these statistics are listed in the Annex to this Regulation.

The Commission has been made aware that a number of the administrative territorial division have changed in several EU Member States. The purpose of this implementing act, therefore, is to re-publish the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 with the most recent data sent to the Commission by the Member States. The measure is in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 2 March 2007.