Union territorial typologies

1. The Commission (Eurostat) shall maintain and publish in the dedicated section of its website Union typologies composed of territorial units at the levels of NUTS, LAU and grid cells.

2. The grid-based typology shall be established at the 1 km 2 grid resolution level as follows:

‘urban centres’,

‘urban clusters’,

‘rural grid cells’.

3. The following typologies shall be established at LAU level:

degree of urbanisation (DEGURBA):

‘Urban areas’:

‘Cities’ or ‘Densely populated areas’,

‘Towns and suburbs’ or ‘Intermediate density areas’,

‘Rural areas’ or ‘Thinly populated areas’;

functional urban areas:

‘Cities’ plus their ‘Commuting zones’;

coastal areas:

‘Coastal areas’,

‘Non-coastal areas’.

If there is more than one administrative level of LAU in a Member State, the Commission (Eurostat) shall consult that Member State to determine the administrative level of LAU that shall be used for the attribution of typologies.

4. The following typologies and labels shall be established at NUTS level 3:

urban-rural typology:

‘Predominantly urban regions’,

‘Intermediate regions’,

‘Predominantly rural regions’;

metropolitan typology:

‘Metropolitan regions’,

‘Non-metropolitan regions’;

coastal typology:

‘Coastal regions’,

‘Non-coastal regions’.

5. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, set out uniform conditions for the harmonised application of the typologies at Union level. Those conditions shall describe the method according to which the typologies will be assigned to the individual LAU and NUTS level 3 regions. When applying the uniform conditions, the Commission shall take into account geographical, socioeconomic, historical, cultural and environmental circumstances. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 7.

( *1 ) Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services ( OJ L 323, 8.12.2010, p. 11 ).’;"

Article 5 is amended as follows:

paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4. Amendments to the NUTS classification in Annex I shall be adopted in the second half of the calendar year, every three years at the earliest, on the basis of the criteria set out in Article 3. Nevertheless, if there is a substantial reorganisation of the relevant administrative structure of a Member State, such amendments to the NUTS classification may be adopted at shorter intervals.

The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 7a to amend the NUTS classification referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph on the basis of the changes in the territorial units that have been communicated to it by the Member State concerned in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article. Regional data which the Member States send to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be based on the amended NUTS classification starting from 1 January of the second year after the adoption of that delegated act.’;

paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:

‘5. In the event that the Commission adopts a delegated act as referred to in paragraph 4, the Member State concerned shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the time series for the new regional breakdown, to replace data already transmitted. The Member State concerned shall transmit these time series by 1 January of the fourth year after the adoption of that delegated act.

The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, set out uniform conditions for time series and their length, taking into account the feasibility of providing them. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 7.’;

Article 7 is replaced by the following:

REGULATION (EU) 2017/2391 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 December 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 as regards the territorial typologies (Tercet)