INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 1970s the European Commission developed the so-called Nomenclature of Statistical Territorial Units (NUTS). This NUTS classification becomes important for the collection of harmonized and thus comparable regional information for the purposes of planning the development of territorial communities and the country.The NUTS classification defines three levels of hierarchical classification for the regions. According to the classification, each EU Member State is divided into several regions at NUTS level 1. Each region is divided into subregions at NUTS level 2 and each subregion at NUTS level 3.In order to establish the relevant NUTS levels, where a given category of administrative units in a Member State has to be classified, the number of the population in the region is used as the main criterion.

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