Overview
The current NUTS 2021 classification is valid from 1 January 2021 and lists 92 regions at NUTS 1, 242 regions at NUTS 2 and 1 166 regions at NUTS 3 level.
The NUTS classification (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) is a hierarchical system for dividing up the economic territory of the EU and the UK for the purpose of:
- the collection, development and harmonisation of European regional statistics
- socio-economic analyses of the regions
- NUTS 1: major socio-economic regions
- NUTS 2: basic regions for the application of regional policies
- NUTS 3: small regions for specific diagnoses
- framing of EU regional policies
- regions eligible for support from cohesion policy have been defined at NUTS 2 level
- the cohesion report has so far mainly been prepared at NUTS 2 level