Local Administrative Units (LAUs)

To meet the demand for statistics at a local level, Eurostat maintains a system of Local Administrative Units (LAUs) compatible with NUTS. These LAUs are the building blocks of the NUTS, and comprise the municipalities and communes of the European Union.

The LAUs are:

- administrative for reasons such as the availability of data and policy implementation capacity;

- a subdivision of the NUTS 3 regions covering the whole economic territory of the Member States;

- appropriate for the implementation of local level typologies included in TERCET, namely the coastal area and DEGURBA classification.

Since there are frequent changes to the LAUs, Eurostat publishes an updated list towards the end of each year.

The LAUs are currently available from 2011 onwards.

The NUTS regulation makes provision for EU Member States to send the lists of their LAUs to Eurostat. If available, Eurostat receives additionally basic administrative data by means of the annual LAU lists, namely total population and total area for each LAU.

Date ( Publication ): 2021-03-15

Identifier: dataset

Status: On going

Author

European Commission, Eurostat (ESTAT), GISCO - ( )

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

Statistical units

Keywords ( Place )

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Administrative units

Use limitation: non-commercial use

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Use constraints: Copyright

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

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The Commission agrees to grant the non-exclusive and not transferable right to use and process the Eurostat/GISCO geographical data downloaded from this page (the "data").

The permission to use the data is granted on condition that:

- the data will not be used for commercial purposes;

- the source will be acknowledged. A copyright notice, as specified below, will have to be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data downloaded from this page.

Copyright notice

When data downloaded from this page is used in any printed or electronic publication, in addition to any other provisions applicable to the whole Eurostat website, data source will have to be acknowledged in the legend of the map and in the introductory page of the publication with the following copyright notice:

EN: © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries

(https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units)

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Boundaries
Geoscientific information

Supplemental Information: See: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/local-administrative-units

Reference system identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:3035

Reference system identifier: WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857)

Distribution format

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OnLine resource

No information provided.

OnLine resource: Local Administrative Units (LAUs) 2011 - 2020 (via REST API) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

OnLine resource: Local Administrative Units (LAUs) 2016 - 2019 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--download )
Local Administrative Units (LAUs) 2016 - 2019

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-12-08

Other citation details: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31

Explanation: See specified reference

Pass: Yes

Statement: lists of LAUs from EU Member States

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier: 37bde72f-37c5-44c4-a2ca-dbb71309f03d XML

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2021-10-25T12:53:02

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Point of contact

European Commission, Eurostat (ESTAT), GISCO - ( )

Point of contact

mundialis GmbH & Co. KG -

https://www.mundialis.de/

Citation proposal

European Commission, Eurostat (ESTAT), GISCO) (2021) . Local Administrative Units (LAUs).
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/37bde72f-37c5-44c4-a2ca-dbb71309f03d

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