By providing for the level of 'smaller administrative units', the Commission is responding to Parliament's call to remedy the lack of uniformity which has characterised the NUTS classification - with one and the same level applying to, for instance, all of Sweden (8 850 000 inhabitants and 410 000 km 2 ) and the Brussels region (954 000 inhabitants and 161 km 2 ).
By providing for the level of 'smaller administrative units', the Commission is responding to Parliament's call to remedy the lack of uniformity which has characterised the NUTS classification - with one and the same level applying to, for instance, all of Sweden (8 850 000 inhabitants and 410 000 km 2 ) and the Brussels region (954 000 inhabitants and 161 km 2 ).