Geographic Information System of the European Commission
As a permanent service of Eurostat, GISCO
- promotes and stimulates the use of GIS within the European Statistical System and the Commission,
- manages and disseminates the Geographical reference database of the Commission,
- acts as a reference centre concerning GIS
- promotes geo-referencing of statistics and collaboration between national statistical institutes and mapping agencies,
- pursues and ensures standardisation and harmonisation in the exchange of Geographic Information,
- co-leads the INSPIRE initiative on the introduction of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure
NUTS classification: Common codes for geographical and statistical data
Eurostat uses the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for the classification of all regional data. Click here for more information on the NUTS codes.
