Considerations on COM(2004)592 - Amendment of Regulation 1059/2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the EU

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dossier COM(2004)592 - Amendment of Regulation 1059/2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) ...
document COM(2004)592 EN
date October 26, 2005
 
table>(1)Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 (3) constitutes the legal framework for the regional classification in order to enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the Community.
(2)All Member States' statistics transmitted to the Commission, which are broken down by territorial units, should use the NUTS classification, where applicable.

(3)It is necessary to adapt the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 to take into account the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union.

(4)Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,