The reference guide is designed to serve as a vade-mecum, explaining the background of European regional and urban statistics, including its regional classification NUTS. The structure of the data stored in the public database is comprehensively described.

This publication contains information on the national statistical systems of the 13 candidate countries covering legal setting and administrative capacity of official statistics, principal providers of statistical data, organisation of NSIs including the staff and financial resources, major...

This report was prepared by Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in the context of the European Commission DG Environment framework contract u0093Financing Capacity for Implementation and Enforcement of Harmonizing Environmental Policy in the NISu0094. The first draft of the report was...