Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1130 of 2 July 2019 on the uniform conditions for the harmonised application of territorial typologies pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1130 · Regulation · 3 articles

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Article 1

The uniform conditions for the harmonised application of the grid-based typology and the LAU-level and NUTS level 3 typologies shall be those set out in the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Supplementary provisions

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX 1. The uniform conditions for the harmonised application of the grid-based typology shall be the following: Element as established in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 Labels Conditions Grid-based typology ‘Rural grid cells’ or ‘Low density grid cells’ 1 km 2 grid cells with density below 300 inhabitants/km 2 and other cells outside urban clusters. ‘Urban clusters’ or ‘Moderate density clusters’ Contiguous (including diagonals) 1 km 2 grid cells with a density of at least 300 inhabitants/km 2 , and a minimum of 5 000 inhabitants in the cluster. ‘Urban centres’ or ‘High density clusters’ Contiguous (without diagonals) 1 km 2 grid cells within the ‘urban cluster’ with a density of at least 1 500 inhabitants/km 2 and a minimum of 50 000 inhabitants in the cluster after gap filling. 2. The uniform conditions for the harmonised application of the typologies at LAU level shall be the following: Element as established in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 Labels Conditions Degree of urbanisation (DEGURBA) ‘Urban areas’ ‘Cities’ or ‘Densely populated areas’ LAU level territorial units where at least 50 % of the population lives in urban centres. ‘Towns and suburbs’ or ‘Intermediate density areas’ LAU level territorial units where less than 50 % of the population lives in rural grid cells and less than 50 % lives in urban centres. ‘Rural areas’ or ‘Thinly populated areas’ LAU level territorial units where at least 50 % of the population lives in rural grid cells. Functional urban areas ‘Functional urban areas’ ‘Cities’ LAU level territorial units defined as ‘Cities’ or ‘Densely populated areas’ ‘Commuting zone’ LAU level territorial units from which at least 15 % of the employed population commutes to the city, whereby enclaves are included and exclaves are excluded. Coastal areas ‘Coastal areas’ LAU level territorial units that border the sea or that have at least 50 % of their surface within a distance of 10 km from the sea. Enclaves (non-coastal LAUs surrounded by adjacent coastal LAUs) are added. ‘Non-coastal areas’ LAU level territorial units that are not ‘Coastal areas’ i.e. that do not border the sea and have less than 50 % of their surface within a distance of 10 km from the sea. 3. The uniform conditions for the harmonised application of the typologies at NUTS level 3 shall be the following: Element as established in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 Labels Conditions Urban-rural typology ‘Predominantly urban regions’ NUTS level 3 regions where at least 80 % of the population live in urban clusters. ‘Intermediate regions’ NUTS level 3 regions where more than 50 % but less than 80 % of the population live in urban clusters. ‘Predominantly rural regions’ NUTS level 3 regions where at least 50 % of the population live in rural grid cells. Metropolitan typology ‘Metropolitan regions’ 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 250 000 inhabitants. ‘Non-metropolitan regions’ NUTS level 3 regions that are not ‘Metropolitan regions’. Coastal typology ‘Coastal regions’ NUTS level 3 regions that 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). ‘Non-coastal regions’ NUTS level 3 regions that are not ‘Coastal regions’.

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