
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), 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 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,
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
ANNEX

Required starting year by statistical domainDomain 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 