EEA geospatial data catalogue
GISCO - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics 2013 (NUTS), Dec. 2015
This dataset represents the regions for levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for 2013. 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, moving respectively 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 its 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://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/overview. This dataset has been created mainly from the EuroBoundary Map v 8.x (Eurogeographics) and geographic information from TurkStat for Türkiye. The public dataset is available at 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M, while the full dataset at 100K is restricted. Coverage is the economic territory of the EU, EFTA countries and candidate countries as in 2013.
This metadata only refers to the full dataset at 100k and shall only be used internally by the EEA following the conditions stated in the document "GISCO-LicenseconditionsforEGdatasets.pdf" provided with the dataset. This metadata has been slightly adapted from the original metadata file provided by Eurostat (European Commission) and is to be used only for internal EEA purposes. For reference, the original metadata file provided by ESTAT (NUTS_2013.xml) is also available for download together with the dataset.
The public datasets, at smaller scales, are available on http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/nuts#nuts13.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-12-03
- Citation identifier
- eurostat_v_4258_100_k_gisco-nuts-2013_i_2013_v01_r00
- Status
- Superseded
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-01-01 2013-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Statistical units
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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EFTA4
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North Macedonia
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Montenegro
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Türkiye
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EU28 (2013-2020)
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- GEMET
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statistical information system
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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The European Commission, its Executive Agencies and European Environment Agency may use the dataset under the usage restrictions described in the document "GISCO-LicenseconditionsforEGdatasets.pdf" available together with the dataset. Contractors of the European Commission, its Executive Agencies and EEA 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.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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(e) intellectual property rights
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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GDB
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download (Eionet authentication)
- OnLine resource
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Direct download (Eionet authentication)
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE/Conformity_001
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)
- 2015-12-03
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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This dataset is based on: EuroBoundaryMap (EBM) v8.x 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 dataset 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 cartographic 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 the 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 have 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 dataset is consistent at all scales with the following datasets: Communes 2013 of European Commission, Eurostat/GISCO, Countries 2013, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO, Coastlines 2013, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO. Exclusive Economic Zones 2010, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO. Different tests were performed to ensure conceptual-, domain- and topological- consistency. Errors in the NUTS geometry supplied in EBM 8 have been rectified in Scotland for UKM63, UKM61 and UKM31.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 4f773546-a667-487e-b3be-fed4f257352d
- Language
- English
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Name
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Service
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/4f773546-a667-487e-b3be-fed4f257352d
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-04-30T08:13:55Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:49:57.71154Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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INSPIRE Metadata Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008
- Edition
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03.12.2008
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