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1. The Commission (Eurostat) shall maintain and publish in the dedicated section of its website Union typologies composed of territorial units at the levels of NUTS, LAU and grid cells.

2. The grid-based typology shall be established at the 1 km2 grid resolution level as follows:

— ‘urban centres’,

— ‘urban clusters’,

— ‘rural grid cells’.

3. The following typologies shall be established at LAU level:

(a) degree of urbanisation (DEGURBA):

— ‘Urban areas’:

— ‘Cities’ or ‘Densely populated areas’,

— ‘Towns and suburbs’ or ‘Intermediate density areas’,

— ‘Rural areas’ or ‘Thinly populated areas’;

(b) functional urban areas:

— ‘Cities’ plus their ‘Commuting zones’;

(c) coastal areas:

— ‘Coastal areas’,

— ‘Non-coastal areas’. If there is more than one administrative level of LAU in a Member State, the Commission (Eurostat) shall consult that Member State to determine the administrative level of LAU that shall be used for the attribution of typologies.

4. The following typologies and labels shall be established at NUTS level 3:

(a) urban-rural typology:

— ‘Predominantly urban regions’,

— ‘Intermediate regions’,

— ‘Predominantly rural regions’;

(b) metropolitan typology:

— ‘Metropolitan regions’,

— ‘Non-metropolitan regions’;

(c) coastal typology:

— ‘Coastal regions’,

— ‘Non-coastal regions’.

5. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, set out uniform conditions for the harmonised application of the typologies at Union level. Those conditions shall describe the method according to which the typologies will be assigned to the individual LAU and NUTS level 3 regions. When applying the uniform conditions, the Commission shall take into account geographical, socioeconomic, historical, cultural and environmental circumstances. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 7.