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- Class 3811
Collection of non-hazardous waste
This class includes:
~ collection of non-hazardous solid waste (i.e. garbage) within a local area, such as collection of waste from households and BUSINESSES by means of refuse bins, wheeled bins, containers etc may include mixed recoverable materials
~ collection of recyclable materials
~ collection of used cooking oils and fats
~ collection of refuse in litter-bins in public places
This class also includes:
~ collection of construction and demolition waste
~ collection and removal of debris such as brush and rubble
~ collection of waste output of textile mills
~ operation of waste transfer stations for non-hazardous waste
- Class 6110
Wired telecommunications activities
This class includes:
~ operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound and video using a wired telecommunications infrastructure, including:
~ operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide point-to-point communications via landlines, microwave or a combination of landlines and satellite linkups
~ operating of cable distribution systems (e.g. for distribution of data and television signals)
~ furnishing telegraph and other non-vocal communications using own facilities
The transmission facilities that carry out these activities, may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies.
This class also includes:
~ purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing telecommunications services using this capacity to BUSINESSES and households
~ provision of Internet access by the operator of the wired infrastructure
- Class 6630
Fund management activities
This class includes portfolio and fund management activities on a fee or contract basis, for individuals, BUSINESSES and others.
This class includes:
~ management of pension funds
~ management of mutual funds
~ management of other investment funds
- Class 7820
Temporary employment agency activities
This class includes:
~ supplying workers to clients' BUSINESSES for limited periods of time to temporarily replace or supplement the working force of the client, where the individuals provided are employees of the temporary help service unit
Units classified here do not provide direct supervision of their employees at the clients' work sites.
- Class 6120
Wireless telecommunications activities
This class includes:
~ operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video using a wireless telecommunications infrastructure
~ maintaining and operating paging as well as cellular and other wireless telecommunications networks
The transmission facilities provide omni-directional transmission via airwaves and may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies.
This class also includes:
~ purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing wireless telecommunications services (except satellite) using this capacity to BUSINESSES and households
~ provision of Internet access by the operator of the wireless infrastructure
- Class 6420
Activities of holding companies
This class includes the activities of holding companies, i.e. units that hold the assets (owning controlling-levels of equity) of a group of subsidiary corporations and whose principal activity is owning the group. The holding companies in this class do not provide any other service to the BUSINESSES in which the equity is held, i.e. they do not administer or manage other units.
- Class 6920
Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
This class includes:
~ recording of commercial transactions from BUSINESSES or others
~ preparation or auditing of financial accounts
~ examination of accounts and certification of their accuracy
~ preparation of personal and business income tax returns
~ advisory activities and representation on behalf of clients before tax authorities
- Class 7020
Management consultancy activities
This class includes the provision of advice, guidance and operational assistance to BUSINESSES and other organizations on management issues, such as strategic and organizational planning; decision areas that are financial in nature; marketing objectives and policies; human resource policies, practices and planning; production scheduling and control planning.
This provision of business services may include advice, guidance or operational assistance to BUSINESSES and the public service regarding:
~ public relations and communication
~ lobbying activities
~ design of accounting methods or procedures, cost accounting programmes, budgetary control procedures
~ advice and help to BUSINESSES and public services in planning, organization, efficiency and control, management information etc.
- Class 7490
Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
This class includes a great variety of service activities generally delivered to commercial clients. It includes those activities for which more advanced professional, scientific and technical skill levels are required, but does not include ongoing, routine business functions that are generally of short duration.
This class includes:
~ translation and interpretation activities
~ business brokerage activities, i.e. arranging for the purchase and sale of small and medium-sized BUSINESSES, including professional practices, but not including real estate brokerage
~ patent brokerage activities (arranging for the purchase and sale of patents)
~ appraisal activities other than for real estate and insurance (for antiques, jewellery, etc.)
~ bill auditing and freight rate information
~ activities of quantity surveyors
~ weather forecasting activities
~ security consulting
~ agronomy consulting
~ environmental consulting
~ other technical consulting
~ activities of consultants other than architecture, engineering and management consultants
This class also includes:
~ activities carried on by agents and agencies on behalf of individuals usually involving the obtaining of engagements in motion picture, theatrical production or other entertainment or sports attractions and the placement of books, plays, artworks, photographs etc., with publishers, producers etc.
- Class 7740
Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works
This class includes the activities of allowing others to use intellectual property products and similar products for which a royalty payment or licensing fee is paid to the owner of the product (i.e. the asset holder). The leasing of these products can take various forms, such as permission for reproduction, use in subsequent processes or products, operating BUSINESSES under a franchise etc. The current owners may or may not have created these products.
This class includes:
~ leasing of intellectual property products (except copyrighted works, such as books or software)
~ receiving royalties or licensing fees for the use of:
~ patented entities
~ trademarks or service marks
~ brand names
~ mineral exploration and evaluation
~ franchise agreements
- Class 8291
Activities of collection agencies and credit bureaus
This class includes:
~ collection of payments for claims and remittance of payments collected to the clients, such as bill or debt collection services
~ compiling of information, such as credit and employment histories on individuals and credit histories on BUSINESSES and providing the information to financial institutions, retailers and others who have a need to evaluate the creditworthiness of these persons and businesses
- Class 8299
Other business support service activities n.e.c.
This class includes:
~ providing verbatim reporting and stenotype recording of live legal proceedings and transcribing subsequent recorded materials, such as:
~ court reporting or stenotype recording services
~ public stenography services
~ real-time (i.e. simultaneous) closed captioning of live television performances of meetings, conferences
~ address bar coding services
~ bar code imprinting services
~ fundraising organization services on a contract or fee basis
~ mail presorting services
~ repossession services
~ parking meter coin collection services
~ activities of independent auctioneers
~ administration of loyalty programmes
~ other support activities typically provided to BUSINESSES not elsewhere classified
- Class 8413
Regulation of and contribution to more efficient operation of businesses
This class includes:
~ public administration and regulation, including subsidy allocation, for different economic sectors:
~ agriculture
~ land use
~ energy and mining resources
~ infrastructure
~ transport
~ communication
~ hotels and tourism
~ wholesale and retail trade
~ administration of R&D policies and associated funds to improve economic performance
~ administration of general labour affairs
~ implementation of regional development policy measures, e.g. to reduce unemployment
- Group 281
Manufacture of general-purpose machinery
This group includes the manufacture of general-purpose machinery, i.e. machinery that is being used in a wide range of ISIC industries. This can include the manufacture of components used in the manufacture of a variety of other machinery or the manufacture of machinery that support the operation of other BUSINESSES.
- Group 381
Waste collection
This group includes the collection of waste from households and BUSINESSES by means of refuse bins, wheeled bins, containers, etc. It includes collection of non-hazardous and hazardous waste e.g. waste from households, used batteries, used cooking oils and fats, waste oil from ships and used oil from garages, as well as construction and demolition waste.
- Group 829
Business support service activities n.e.c.
This group includes the activities of collection agencies, credit bureaus and all support activities typically provided to BUSINESSES not elsewhere classified.
- Group 821
Office administrative and support activities
This group includes the provision of a range of day-to-day office administrative services, such as financial planning, billing and record keeping, personnel and physical distribution and logistics for others on a contract or fee basis.
This group includes also support activities for others on a contract or fee basis, that are ongoing routine business support functions that BUSINESSES and organizations traditionally do for themselves.
Units classified in this group do not provide operating staff to carry out the complete operations of a business. Units engaged in one particular aspect of these activities are classified according to that particular activity.
- Division 46
Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
This division includes wholesale trade on own account or on a fee or contract basis (commission trade) related to domestic wholesale trade as well as international wholesale trade (import/export).
Wholesale is the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods to retailers, business-to-business trade, such as to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional users, or resale to other wholesalers, or involves acting as an agent or broker in buying goods for, or selling goods to, such persons or companies. The principal types of BUSINESSES included are merchant wholesalers, i.e. wholesalers who take title to the goods they sell, such as wholesale merchants or jobbers, industrial distributors, exporters, importers, and cooperative buying associations, sales branches and sales offices (but not retail stores) that are maintained by manufacturing or mining units apart from their plants or mines for the purpose of marketing their products and that do not merely take orders to be filled by direct shipments from the plants or mines. Also included are merchandise brokers, commission merchants and agents and assemblers, buyers and cooperative associations engaged in the marketing of farm products.
Wholesalers frequently physically assemble, sort and grade goods in large lots, break bulk, repack and redistribute in smaller lots, for example pharmaceuticals; store, refrigerate, deliver and install goods, engage in sales promotion for their customers and label design.
This division excludes the wholesale of motor vehicles, caravans and motorcycles, as well as motor vehicle accessories (see division 45), the renting and leasing of goods (see division 77) and the packing of solid goods and bottling of liquid or gaseous goods, including blending and filtering, for third parties (see class 8292).
- Division 70
Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities
This division includes the provision of advice and assistance to BUSINESSES and other organizations on management issues, such as strategic and organizational planning; financial planning and budgeting; marketing objectives and policies; human resource policies, practices, and planning; production scheduling; and control planning. It also includes the overseeing and managing of other units of the same company or enterprise, i.e. the activities of head offices.
- Division 78
Employment activities
This division includes activities of listing employment vacancies and referring or placing applicants for employment, where the individuals referred or placed are not employees of the employment agencies, supplying workers to clients' BUSINESSES for limited periods of time to supplement the working force of the client, and the activities of providing human resources and human resource management services for others on a contract or fee basis. This division also includes executive search and placement activities and activities of theatrical casting agencies.
This division excludes the activities of agents for individual artists (see class 7490).
- Division 82
Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
This division includes the provision of a range of day-to-day office administrative services, as well as ongoing routine business support functions for others, on a contract or fee basis.
This division also includes all support service activities typically provided to BUSINESSES not elsewhere classified.
Units classified in this division do not provide operating staff to carry out the complete operations of a business.
- Section G
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
This section includes wholesale and retail sale (i.e. sale without transformation) of any type of goods and the rendering of services incidental to the sale of these goods. Wholesaling and retailing are the final steps in the distribution of goods. Goods bought and sold are also referred to as merchandise.
Also included in this section are the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Sale without transformation is considered to include the usual operations (or manipulations) associated with trade, for example sorting, grading and assembling of goods, mixing (blending) of goods (for example sand), bottling (with or without preceding bottle cleaning), packing, breaking bulk and repacking for distribution in smaller lots, storage (whether or not frozen or chilled), cleaning and drying of agricultural products, cutting out of wood fibreboards or metal sheets as secondary activities.
Division 45 includes all activities related to the sale and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, while divisions 46 and 47 include all other sale activities. The distinction between division 46 (wholesale) and division 47 (retail sale) is based on the predominant type of customer.
Wholesale is the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional users, or to other wholesalers, or involves acting as an agent or broker in buying goods for, or selling goods to, such persons or companies. The principal types of BUSINESSES included are merchant wholesalers, i.e. wholesalers who take title to the goods they sell, such as wholesale merchants or jobbers, industrial distributors, exporters, importers, and cooperative buying associations, sales branches and sales offices (but not retail stores) that are maintained by manufacturing or mining units apart from their plants or mines for the purpose of marketing their products and that do not merely take orders to be filled by direct shipments from the plants or mines. Also included are merchandise brokers, commission merchants and agents and assemblers, buyers and cooperative associations engaged in the marketing of farm products. Wholesalers frequently physically assemble, sort and grade goods in large lots, break bulk, repack and redistribute in smaller lots, for example pharmaceuticals; store, refrigerate, deliver and install goods, engage in sales promotion for their customers and label design.
Retailing is the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods mainly to the general public for personal or household consumption or utilization, by shops, department stores, stalls, mail-order houses, door-to-door sales persons, hawkers and peddlers, consumer cooperatives, auction houses etc. Most retailers take title to the goods they sell, but some act as agents for a principal and sell either on consignment or on a commission basis.