NUTS

-- Name -- NUTS tesselation -- Definition -- A statistical tessellation composed of NUTS regions. -- Description -- NOTE level attribute values should be among the NUTSHierarchy CodeList.

-- Name -- NUTS region -- Definition -- Territorial unit for statistics defined in the framework of the Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003. -- Description -- NOTE NUTS regions subdivide each Member State into a whole number of territorial units for statistic at NUTS1 level. Each of these is then subdivided into regions at NUTS2 level and these in turn into regions at NUTS3 level.