GISCO - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics 2016 (NUTS) - PRE-RELEASE VERSION, Jan. 2018

This dataset represents the regions for levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for 2016. The NUTS nomenclature is a hierarchical classification of statistical regions and subdivides the EU economic territory into regions of four different levels (NUTS , 1, 2 and 3, moving respectively from larger to smaller territorial units). NUTS 1 is the most aggregated level. An additional Country level (NUTS 0) is also available for countries where the the nation at statistical level does not coincide with the administrative boundaries. For example Mt Athos in Greece and Mellum and Minsener Ogg in Germany. The NUTS classification has been officially established through Regulation (EC) No 2016/2066 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 12 (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 2016.

This metadata only refers to a pre-release version of the full nuts 2016 dataset at 100k (it does not contain Albanian boundaries) 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_2016.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#nuts16.

Date (Creation): 2018-03-20

Citation identifier: eurostat_v_4258_100_k_gisco-nuts-2016_i_2016_v00_r00

Status: Obsolete

Point of contact

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Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

North Macedonia
EFTA4
Montenegro
Türkiye
EU28 (2013-2020)

Keywords

GEMET

statistical information system

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Statistical units

Spatial scope

European

Use limitation: 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.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: (e) intellectual property rights

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language of dataset: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Boundaries

Begin date: 2016-01-01

End date: 2016-12-31

Reference system identifier: OGP Surveying & Positioning Committee / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258

Distribution format

GDB ( 1.0)

OnLine resource

No information provided.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: 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: See the referenced specification

Statement: This dataset is based on: EuroBoundaryMap (EBM) v12.x from EuroGeographics (scale of 1:100.000), Global Administrative Unit Layer (GAUL) 2015 country data from UN/FAO, data from the National Statistical Institute of Türkiye (TurkStat). The different scale levels (1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M, here not provided) were derived by generalisation of the 100K scale. This dataset consists of 2 feature classes (region polygons and boundaries) per scale level. 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 2016 of European Commission, Eurostat/GISCO, Countries 2016, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO, Coastlines 2016, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO. Exclusive Economic Zones 2016, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO. Different tests were performed to ensure conceptual-, domain- and topological- consistency. Errors in the NUTS/Statistical regions geometry supplied in EBM 12 have been rectified in Scotland for UKN10, UKN11, UKN12, UKN13, UKN14, UKN15, UKN16 and RS110.

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