---
id: "eu_lau_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo"]
country: ["EU"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eu_lau_code"
---

# Eurostat LAU code (`eu_lau_code`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Code of a local administrative unit (LAU) in the Eurostat correspondence tables and GISCO, with the country code in front: the alpha-2 code, an underscore and the national code, as in RO_1017.

- Parent datatype: `id`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: European Union (EU)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{2}_[0-9A-Z]{1,12}$
```

## Examples

- `RO_1017` — Romanian commune (SIRUTA 1017)
- `RO_1213` — Romanian commune
- `RO1017` (invalid example) — No underscore

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 0 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `eulaucodevalue` (data, `eu/eu_geo.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eu_lau_code.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/EU/geo/eu_lau_code.yaml>