
Article 1 
Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the time series for the new regional breakdown in accordance with the Annex by 1 January 2023.
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, 13 November 2020.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
ANNEX

Required starting year by statistical domain

Domain NUTS level 2 NUTS level 3
Agriculture 2016 
Demography – population, live births, deaths 1990 1990
Labour market – employment, unemployment 2016 2016
Education 2013 
Environment – waste treatment facilities 2018 
Health – causes of death 2011 
Health – infrastructure 1996 
Health – patients 2003 
Information society 2016 
Regional accounts – Household accounts by region 2000 
Regional accounts – Accounts by industry and by region 2000 2000
Science and technology – R & D expenditure and personnel 2016 
Tourism 2018 





