legal framework for the geographical division of the territory of the European Union in order to harmonise the collection, transmission and publication of national and EU statistics, the nomenclature established by the Statistical Office of the European Communities in co-operation with other European Commission departments in order to provide a single uniform breakdown of territorial units for the production of regional statistics

legal framework for the geographical division of the territory of the European Union in order to harmonise the collection, transmission and publication of national and EU statistics, the nomenclature established by the Statistical Office of the European Communities in co-operation with other European Commission departments in order to provide a single uniform breakdown of territorial units for the production of regional statistics