11/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - the European Commission has just published its report on the implementation of the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) regulation. In this regulation, (EC) 1059/2003, the Commission notes that, for some areas of regional statistics, any change in NUTS nomenclature creates considerable problems for the maintenance and recalculation of statistical data. Thus the Commission decided to adopt a restrictive approach with its proposals for changes of...