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NUTS 2

The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) were drawn up by Eurostat in order to define territorial units for the production of comparable regional statistics across the European Union. The NUTS classification has been used in EU legislation since 1988, but it was only in 2003 that the EU Member States, the European Parliament and the Commission established the NUTS regions within a legal framework (Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003). For the purpose of comparability, NUTS classifications remain stable for at least three years, as specified by the regulation. However, if national interests require a change inthe regional breakdown of a country, the country concerned may notify the European Commission, who will then carry out the required amendments at the end of a period of stability, according to the rules of the NUTS regulation. Changes made under the 2014 Local Government Act prompted a revision to the Irish NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 Regions. These changes included the amalgamation of the local authorities of Tipperary North and South, Limerick City and County Councils and Waterford City and County Councils. In addition, three regional Assemblies were established (Northern & Western, Southern, Eastern & Midland) The new NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 structure and classification are displayed in a table on the CSO website https://www.cso.ie/en/methods/revnuts23/

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Alternate title

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) Region 2

Date (Creation)
2008-01-01
Date (Revision)
2022-04-03
Date (Publication)
2017-06-20
Citation identifier
CSO / SU.IE.CSO.NUTS2
Citation identifier
CSO / SU.VectorStatisticalUnit
Purpose

To produce statistics for Ireland

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Central Statistics Office

information@cso.ie

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Statistical units
Spatial scope
  • National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

  • statistical information

Place
  • Ireland

Specific usage

Statistical units INSPIRE

User contact info
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Central Statistics Office

information@cso.ie

User
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no conditions to access and use
Other constraints
CC BY 4.0
Other constraints

This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]

Spatial representation type
Vector
Distance
1  m
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Society
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W
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Unique resource identifier
IRENET95 / Irish Transverse Mercator
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)
Distribution format
Name Version
gml+xml

3.2

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Ordnance Survey Ireland

inspire@osi.ie

Publisher
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

ATOM Syndication Format

https://osi-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/StatisticalUnits/StatisticalUnits_ServiceATOM.xml

CSO Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2014-12-31
Explanation
This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2008-12-24
Explanation
Conformant
Pass
Yes
Statement

NUTS2 boundaries are digitised by Ordnance Survey Ireland, if you wish to acquire any information regarding the process history on this dataset please contact OSi at custserv@osi.ie. Invalid geometry checks and polygon checks were run using Data Reviewer in ArcMap 10.5.1. Ungeneralised and generalised (20m/50m/100m) versions are available on in the ITM projection. custserv@osi.ie NUTS2 boundaries are digitised by Ordnance Survey Ireland, if you wish to acquire any information regarding the process history on this dataset please contact OSi at custserv@osi.ie. Invalid geometry checks and polygon checks were run using Data Reviewer in ArcMap 10.5.1. Ungeneralised and generalised (20m/50m/100m) versions are available on in the ITM projection.

Metadata

File identifier
{C4442D48-07A2-11EA-8D71-362B9E155667} XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-05-20T00:00:00
Metadata standard name

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) NÂș 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version

TG 2.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Central Statistics Office

information@cso.ie

Point of contact
 
 

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Spatial extent

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W
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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Statistical units
General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3
statistical information

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