NACE Rev. 2 - European Commission

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Methodologies and Working papers

NACE Rev. 2

Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community

Methodologies and Working papers

NACE Rev. 2

Statistical classification of economic activites in the European Community

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Preface

Reliable and comparable international statistics can be produced and made available to business, financial institutions, governments and all other operators in the international market only if based on common statistical standards.

NACE is the "statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community"1 and is the subject of legislation at the European Union level2, which imposes the use of the classification uniformly within all the Member States.

It is a basic element of the international integrated system of economic classifications, which is based on classifications of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSTAT), Eurostat as well as national classifications; all of them strongly related each to the others, allowing the comparability of economic statistics produced worldwide by different institutions.

The present NACE Rev. 2, which is the new revised version of the NACE Rev. 1 and of its minor update NACE Rev. 1.1, is the outcome of a major revision work of the international integrated system of economic classifications which took place between 2000 and 2007. NACE Rev. 2 reflects the technological developments and structural changes of the economy, enabling the modernisation of the Community statistics and contributing, through more comparable and relevant data, to better economic governance at both Community and national level.

Development of NACE Rev. 2 has benefited from the work preparing the fourth revision of the United Nations' International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC Rev. 4). Representatives from Eurostat and Member States of the EU played an important role in this work. NACE Rev. 2 has been created based on ISIC Rev. 4 and adapted to the European circumstances by a working group of experts on statistical classifications from the Member States, candidate Countries as well as EFTA Countries, with the support and guidance of the classification section at Eurostat.

Beside the classification, this publication contains also the introductory guidelines containing the main concepts, an historical background and the methodological guidelines for understanding and applying NACE Rev. 2 as well as a detailed description of the different items of the classification.

H. Carr? Director General

1 NACE is the acronym for "Nomenclature statistique des activit?s ?conomiques dans la Communaut? europ?enne". 2 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (OJ No L 293, 24.10.1990, p. 1) as amended by Commission

Regulation (EEC) No 761/93 of 24 March 1993 (OJ No L 83, 3.4.1993, p. 1, and corrigendum, OJ No L 159, 11.7.1995, p. 31).

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List of abbreviations

BEC CN CPA CPC EEC EP/C ESA EU HS ISIC KAU NACE PRODCOM RAMON

SITC SNA SPC UN

Classification by Broad Economic Categories of the United Nations Combined Nomenclature ? European Classification of Goods European Classification of Products by Activity Central Product Classification of the United Nations European Economic Community European Parliament and Council European System of National and Regional Accounts European Union Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of the World Customs Organization International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities of the United Nations Kind of Activity Unit European Classification of Economic Activities European System of production statistics for mining and manufacturing Eurostat's online server for metadata Standard International Trade Classification of the United Nations System of National Accounts Statistical Programme Committee United Nations

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