Legislation
Population projections are calculated by Eurostat based on the demographic and migration data transmitted annually by the national statistical institutes under the following regulations.
Basic legal acts
- EU regulation 1260/2013 on European demographic statistics
- EU regulation 223/2009 on European statistics
- EU regulation 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection
- Amendments of the basic EU regulation 1059/2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), and the agreements on statistical regions for EFTA countries; NUTS - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics
Implementing regulations
- EU implementing regulation 205/2014 on European demographic statistics, as regards breakdowns of data, deadlines and data revisions
- EU regulation 351/2010 on migration and international protection as regards the definitions of the categories of the groups of country of birth, groups of country of previous usual residence, groups of country of next usual residence and groups of citizenship