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

Official Journal EN of the European Union L series 2024/1961 17.7.2024 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 2003on 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).

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1961/oj 1/2EN OJ L, 17.7.2024 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.

2/2 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1961/oj