Nuts3 Boundaries Generalised 50 m — OSi National Statistical Boundaries — 2015

<div style=‘text-align:Left;font-size:12pt’>NUTS3 boundaries Generalised to 50 m. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) were drawn up by Eurostat in order to define territorial units for the production of regional statistics across the European Union. The NUTS classification has been used in EU legislation since 1988, but it was only in 2003 that the EU Member States, the European Parliament and the Commission established the NUTS regions within a legal framework (Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003).The Irish NUTS 3 regions comprise the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Establishment) Order, 1993 which came into operation on January 1st 1994. The NUTS 2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed to by Eurostat in 1999, are groupings of the Regional Authorities.</div>已概化至50米精度的NUTS 3级边界。统计领土单位命名法（Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics，简称NUTS）由欧盟统计局（Eurostat）制定，旨在为欧盟全境的区域统计数据编制工作划定标准化领土单元。该分类体系自1988年起便应用于欧盟立法，但直至2003年，欧盟成员国、欧洲议会与欧盟委员会才通过《第1059/2003号（EC）条例》为NUTS区域确立了正式的法律框架。爱尔兰的NUTS 3级区域包含依据1993年《1991年地方政府法（设立）令》设立、并于1994年1月1日正式生效的8个区域管理局。由爱尔兰政府提议、并于1999年获欧盟统计局认可的NUTS 2级区域，是对上述区域管理局的集群整合。