COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/1130
of 2 July 2019
on the uniform conditions for the harmonised application of territorial typologies pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Article 1
Article 2
ANNEX
Element as established in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 |
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Conditions |
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Grid-based typology |
‘Rural grid cells’ or ‘Low density grid cells’ |
1 km2 grid cells with density below 300 inhabitants/km2 and other cells outside urban clusters. |
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‘Urban clusters’ or ‘Moderate density clusters’ |
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Contiguous (including diagonals) 1 km2 grid cells with a density of at least 300 inhabitants/km2, and a minimum of 5 000 inhabitants in the cluster. |
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‘Urban centres’ or ‘High density clusters’ |
Contiguous (without diagonals) 1 km2 grid cells within the ‘urban cluster’ with a density of at least 1 500 inhabitants/km2 and a minimum of 50 000 inhabitants in the cluster after gap filling. |
Element as established in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 |
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Conditions |
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Degree of urbanisation (DEGURBA) |
‘Urban areas’ |
‘Cities’ or ‘Densely populated areas’ |
LAU level territorial units where at least 50 % of the population lives in urban centres. |
‘Towns and suburbs’ or ‘Intermediate density areas’ |
LAU level territorial units where less than 50 % of the population lives in rural grid cells and less than 50 % lives in urban centres. |
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‘Rural areas’ or ‘Thinly populated areas’ |
LAU level territorial units where at least 50 % of the population lives in rural grid cells. |
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Functional urban areas |
‘Functional urban areas’ |
‘Cities’ |
LAU level territorial units defined as ‘Cities’ or ‘Densely populated areas’ |
‘Commuting zone’ |
LAU level territorial units from which at least 15 % of the employed population commutes to the city, whereby enclaves are included and exclaves are excluded. |
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Coastal areas |
‘Coastal areas’ |
LAU level territorial units that border the sea or that have at least 50 % of their surface within a distance of 10 km from the sea. Enclaves (non-coastal LAUs surrounded by adjacent coastal LAUs) are added. |
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‘Non-coastal areas’ |
LAU level territorial units that are not ‘Coastal areas’ i.e. that do not border the sea and have less than 50 % of their surface within a distance of 10 km from the sea. |
Element as established in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 |
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Conditions |
Urban-rural typology |
‘Predominantly urban regions’ |
NUTS level 3 regions where at least 80 % of the population live in urban clusters. |
‘Intermediate regions’ |
NUTS level 3 regions where more than 50 % but less than 80 % of the population live in urban clusters. |
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‘Predominantly rural regions’ |
NUTS level 3 regions where at least 50 % of the population live in rural grid cells. |
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Metropolitan typology |
‘Metropolitan regions’ |
A single or an aggregation of NUTS level 3 region(s) in which at least 50 % of the population live in functional urban areas of at least 250 000 inhabitants. |
‘Non-metropolitan regions’ |
NUTS level 3 regions that are not ‘Metropolitan regions’. |
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Coastal typology |
‘Coastal regions’ |
NUTS level 3 regions that border the sea, or those in which at least 50 % of the population live within 50 km from the coastline, as well as the NUTS level 3 region of Hamburg (Germany). |
‘Non-coastal regions’ |
NUTS level 3 regions that are not ‘Coastal regions’. |