| Land-use class | Description | 1990 | 2000 | 2006 |
| Continuous urban fabric (111) | Built-up settlement land, mostly inner-urban compact residential areas | 8.36 | 8.36 | 8.47 |
| Discontinuous urban fabric (112) | Built-up settlement land, mostly peri-urban and rural low density residential areas | 340.86 | 356.40 | 367.53 |
| Industrial or commercial units (121) | Predominantly built-up industrial and commercial land | 65.50 | 89.29 | 94.94 |
| Road and rail networks and associated land (122) | Transportation area, often sealed | 4.60 | 4.60 | 4.55 |
| Airports (124) | Predominantly built-up and sealed area of airports | 11.94 | 16.68 | 19.81 |
| Mineral extraction sites (131) | Area of opencast lignite mining, predominantly bare soil and sediments | 144.08 | 97.62 | 61.60 |
| Dump sites (132) | All forms of dumps, mostly material and relief accumulation; unsealed | 8.55 | 6.88 | 5.89 |
| Construction sites (133) | Land development and preparation area | 0.46 | 2.13 | 2.92 |
| Green urban areas (141) | All forms of urban green spaces including parks, allotment gardens, cemeteries etc.; predominantly not sealed | 31.13 | 31.13 | 35.18 |
| Sport and leisure facilities (142) | All forms of leisure areas; partly built-up, open spaces such as sportsgrounds often with densified bare soils | 14.02 | 14.02 | 20.05 |
| Non-irrigated arable land (211) | Arable production land | 2827.85 | 2770.97 | 2700.22 |
| Fruit trees and berry plantations (222) | Arable plantations | 26.73 | 8.32 | 8.54 |
| Pastures (231) | Grassland, partly wetlands | 99.01 | 95.82 | 118.11 |
| Complex cultivation patterns (242) | Including gardens, greenhouses, tree nurseries etc. | 4.18 | 7.31 | 7.80 |
| Deciduous forest (311) | Deciduous forests and young forest plantations | 301.66 | 303.11 | 310.75 |
| Coniferous forest (312) | Coniferous forests and young forest plantations | 4.98 | 4.04 | 4.11 |
| Mixed forest (313) | Mixed forests and young forest plantations | 22.21 | 21.91 | 28.64 |