TERCET: A European regulation on statistical units and territorial typologies

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1 TERCET: A European regulation on statistical units and territorial typologies NUAC Meeting 10 May 2016 Eurostat Unit E4

2 Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003: - Establishes a classification of territorial units for statistics - at three levels which are based on - population thresholds. - Mirrors largely the administrative structure of the Member States

3 The NUTS... - ensure harmonised standards in the collection, transmission and dissemination of European regional statistics - guarantee that published regional statistics are based on comparable data - enable the analysis and comparison of the socio-economic situation of the regions - allow for targetting policy interventions to specifically support disadvantaged and less-developped regions

4 But can we do better? - rural areas and regions might have different needs than urban ones - coastal areas and regions have some specifities as well ('blue economy') - metropolitan regions are said to be economic powerhouses, but have their own problems Can we measure that?

5 The Tercet proposal: To include the most important territorial typologies into the NUTS Regulation Establish legal recognition of territorial typologies - already in use in Union legislation, but lack legislative establishment - enables specific policy instruments on for instance cities, rural regions, coastal areas and regions etc. to refer to typologies Lay down core definitions and statistical criteria for the typologies to ensure a harmonised application Eurostat

6 Territorial levels The typologies in Tercet will cover the most important typologies at the level of: - A 1 skm grid (technical level) - LAU (local level) - NUTS 3 (lowest regional level) Eurostat

7 Statistical grids In order to be able to calculate the other typologies, - Eurostat will maintain a statistical grid, - based on 1km 2 and - on the definitions in INSPIRE.

8 Uniform conditions: grid Element as established in the NUTS Regulation Labels Conditions Grid typology Urban centres Urban clusters Rural grid cells Contiguous 1 km² grid cells (without diagonals and with gap filling) with a density of at least inhabitants/km² and a minimum of inhabitants. Contiguous 1 km² grid cells (including diagonals) with a density of at least 300 inhabitants/km² and a minimum of inhabitants. 1 km² grid cells outside urban clusters.

9 Element as established in the NUTS Regulation Uniform conditions: LAU level Labels Conditions Degree of urbanisation (DEGURBA) Urban Areas 'Cities' or 'Densely populated areas' 'Towns and suburbs' or 'Intermediate density areas' LAU level territorial units where at least 50% of the population live in urban centres. LAU level territorial units where more than 50% of the population live in urban clusters, but are not 'cities'. Functional Urban Areas (FUA) Coastal areas 'Rural areas' or 'Thinly populated areas' Cities + Commuting zones Coastal areas Non-coastal areas LAU level territorial units where at least 50% of the population live in rural grid cells. LAU level territorial units defined as 'Cities' or 'Densely populated areas' LAU level territorial units from which at least 15% of the employed population commute to the city, whereby enclaves are included and exclaves are excluded. LAU level territorial units that border the sea or that have at least 50% of their surface within a distance of 10km from the sea. LAU level territorial units that are not coastal, i.e. which do not border a sea and have less than 50% of their surface within a distance of 10km from the sea.

10 DEGURBA: Crime rate

11 Uniform conditions: NUTS 3 level Element as established in the NUTS Regulation Labels Conditions Urban-rural typology Metropolitan typology Maritime typology Urban regions Intermediate regions Rural regions Metropolitan regions Non-metropolitan regions Coastal regions Non-coastal regions NUTS level 3 regions where at least 80% of the population live in urban clusters. NUTS level 3 regions where between 50% and 80% of the population live in urban clusters. NUTS level 3 regions where at least 50% of the population live in rural grid cells. A single or an aggregation of NUTS level 3 region(s) in which at least 50% of the population live in Functional Urban Areas of at least inhabitants. NUTS level 3 regions which are no 'Metropolitan regions'. NUTS level 3 regions which border the sea, or those in which at least 50% of the population live within 50 km from the coastline, as well as the NUTS level 3 region of Hamburg (Germany). NUTS level 3 regions which are no 'Coastal regions'.

12 Urban/rural typology: unemployment rates

13 Urban/rural typology: GDP per inhabitant

14 Indicative timetable Action Consultation of the Working Group on regional, urban and rural development statistics Timing (provisional) March / April 2016 Launch of Inter-Service Consultation May / June 2016 Presentation of the legislative draft to the DIMESA (written consultation) May / June 2016 ESSC Committee September 2016 Adoption by the Commission December 2016 Transmission to EP and Council December 2016

15 Tercet Core features - Eurostat will calculate and allocate the typologies to the regions/areas/grid cells, no impact on resources of Member States; - Eurostat will manage the grid; - Member States keep control over the typologies as defined in the Regulation & the implementing act; - alignment of reference dates for LAU lists to