EEA geospatial data catalogue
GISCO - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics 2010 (NUTS), Aug. 2012
This data set represents the regions for level 1, 2 and 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for 2010. The NUTS nomenclature is a hierarchical classification of statistical regions and subdivides the EU economic territory into regions of three different levels (NUTS 1, 2 and 3, respectively, moving from larger to smaller territorial units). NUTS 1 is the most aggregated level. The NUTS classification has been officially established through Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amendments. A non official NUTS-like classification has been defined for the EFTA countries and candidate countries. An introduction to the NUTS classification is available here: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction
This data set has been created mainly from the EuroBoundary Map v 5.0 (Eurogeographics), geographic information from TurkStat for Türkiye, the Global Administrative Unit Layer from FAO (UN) for Macedonia and a list of communes per statistical region provided by the countries. Six scale ranges (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M and 20M, 60M) are available. The public data set (1M - 60M) is available for download at http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco_Geographical_information_maps/popups/references/administrative_units_statistical_units_1 The full data set (100K - 60M) is available to EEA due to EEA having a valid EBM v5.0 licence.
Coverage is the economical territory of the EU, EFTA countries and candidate countries as in 2010.
These metadata are derived from the original metadata records available at Inspire@EC.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-08-17
- Citation identifier
- eurostat_v_4258_x_x_gisco-nuts_2010
- Status
- Superseded
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 1000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 3000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 10000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 20000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 60000000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2010-01-01 2010-12-31
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Statistical units
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- GEMET
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statistical information system
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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This data set should be referred to as: "Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) 2010 - European Commission, Eurostat/GISCO" An overview of the use conditions is given below. The detailed use conditions are available here:
https://circabc.europa.eu/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/6f5186f3-908b-413a-8687-191604976751/EuroGeographics%20Use%20Conditions%20-%20From%20Contract.pdf Access to the detailed data is restricted to the personnel of the European Commission, the Executive Agencies and contractors, due to intellectual property rights. The contractors can access the data after signing an agreement form. The agreement form can be requested by the responsible service from European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO ( ESTAT-GISCO@ec.europa.eu). Once the form has been signed, access will be provided by European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO. Data can be published in the form of electronic images, statistical tables and on paper. Subsets of this data can be made available to the general public for non commercial use, only if the data covered either has a spatial resolution of 1:1.000.000 or smaller, or less than 20% of the original EuroGeographics data is shown for the selected extent. The source and intellectual property have always to be acknowledged. To this end, an acknowledgement as specified below must be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data. Acknowledgement notice, depending on the language used in the publication: English: Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO French: Limites administratives: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: Commission européenne – Eurostat/GISCO German: Verwaltungsgrenzen: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Quelle: Europäische Kommission - Eurostat/GISCO For publications in languages other than English, French or German, the translation of the acknowledgement notice in the language of the publication must be used.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- intellectualPropertyRights
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Metadata Reference
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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This dataset is based on: EuroBoundaryMap (EBM) v5.0. from EuroGeographics (scale of 1:100.000), Global Administrative Unit Layer (GAUL) 2008 country data from UN/FAO, data from the National Statistical Institute of Türkiye (TurkStat), General Register Office for Scotland (GRO) (scale 1:100.000), Digital Chart of the World from ESRI for Kaliningrad, ArcWorld from ESRI for the Aral Sea, the Caspian Sea, some other borders. The different scale levels were derived by generalisation of the 100K scale. This data set consists of 2 feature classes (region polygons and boundaries) per scale level (100k, 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M). In addition there is also a label feature class (scale independent). This labelpoint feature class was created with a label inside each NUTS region at the 3 NUTS levels (1 - 3) and countries. Furthermore two line feature classes were created: one feature class for cartograhic joiners to identify where NUTS areas have one or more enclaves and a second line feature class for cartographic separators, to identify where the NUTS limits are in the sea. The arcs of two latter feature classes are only useful for cartographic purposes and are not meant to identify actual administrative or statistical boundaries stretching into the sea or any other significance. The boundaries and regions are related to each other through a relationship table. Associated tables contain basic information such as the region's name. The 5 small scale feature classes should be used exclusively for cartographic purposes. This data set is consistent at all scales with the following data sets: "Communes 2010 – European Commission, Eurostat/GISCO", "Countries 2010, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO", "Coastlines 2010, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO", "Exclusive Economic Zones 2010, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO" . Different tests were performed to ensure conceptual- , domain- and topological- consistency. A detailed description of these tests can be found in the data base manual.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- OGP Surveying & Positioning Committee/urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 8589f46b-8458-4d2d-9a70-d4b7bb14875d
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/8589f46b-8458-4d2d-9a70-d4b7bb14875d
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-08-21T17:23:49Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:01:17.195794Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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