Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/195 of 13 November 2025 amending Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the NUTS classification and the lists of existing administrative units and local administrative units

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (1), and in particular Article 3(4), Article 4(1) and Article 5(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 establishes a common classification of territorial units to enable the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonised regional statistics in the Union.

(2) The Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 list the territorial units to be used for statistics.

(3) The NUTS classification was last amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/674 (2).

(4) According to the information provided to the Commission by Member States, the territorial division of several Member States has changed since the NUTS classification was last amended.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 are replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

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.

It shall apply for the transmission of data to the Commission (Eurostat) from 1 January 2027.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 13 November 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2003/1059/oj.

(2) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/674 of 26 December 2022 amending the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 87, 24.3.2023, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/674/oj).