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- Class 2640
Manufacture of consumer electronics
This class includes the manufacture of electronic audio and video equipment for home entertainment, motor vehicle, PUBLIC address systems and musical instrument amplification.
This class includes:
~ manufacture of video cassette recorders and duplicating equipment
~ manufacture of televisions
~ manufacture of television monitors and displays
~ manufacture of audio recording and duplicating systems
~ manufacture of stereo equipment
~ manufacture of radio receivers
~ manufacture of speaker systems
~ manufacture of household-type video cameras
~ manufacture of jukeboxes
~ manufacture of amplifiers for musical instruments and PUBLIC address systems
~ manufacture of microphones
~ manufacture of CD and DVD players
~ manufacture of karaoke machines
~ manufacture of headphones (e.g. radio, stereo, computer)
~ manufacture of video game consoles
- Class 3100
Manufacture of furniture
This class includes the manufacture of furniture of any kind, any material (except stone, concrete or ceramic) for any place and various purposes.
This class includes:
~ manufacture of chairs and seats for offices, workrooms, hotels, restaurants, PUBLIC and domestic premises
~ manufacture of chairs and seats for theatres, cinemas and the like
~ manufacture of sofas, sofa beds and sofa sets
~ manufacture of garden chairs and seats
~ manufacture of special furniture for shops: counters, display cases, shelves etc.
~ manufacture of furniture for churches, schools, restaurants
~ manufacture of office furniture
~ manufacture of kitchen furniture
~ manufacture of furniture for bedrooms, living rooms, gardens etc.
~ manufacture of cabinets for sewing machines, televisions etc.
~ manufacture of laboratory benches, stools and other laboratory seating, laboratory furniture (e.g. cabinets and tables)
This class also includes:
~ finishing such as upholstery of chairs and seats
~ finishing of furniture such as spraying, painting, French polishing and upholstering
~ manufacture of mattress supports
~ manufacture of mattresses:
~ mattresses fitted with springs or stuffed or internally fitted with a supporting material
~ uncovered cellular rubber or plastic mattresses
~ decorative restaurant carts, such as dessert carts, food wagons
- Class 6611
Administration of financial markets
This class includes:
~ operation and supervision of financial markets other than by PUBLIC authorities, such as:
~ commodity contracts exchanges
~ futures commodity contracts exchanges
~ securities exchanges
~ stock exchanges
~ stock or commodity options exchanges
- 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 7911
Travel agency activities
This class includes:
~ activities of agencies primarily engaged in selling travel, tour, transportation and accommodation services to the general PUBLIC and commercial clients
- Class 5310
Postal activities
This class includes the activities of postal services operating under a universal service obligation. The activities include use of the universal service infrastructure, including retail locations, sorting and processing facilities, and carrier routes to pickup and deliver the mail. The delivery can include letter-post, i.e. letters, postcards, printed papers (newspaper, periodicals, advertising items, etc.), small packets, goods or documents. Also included are other services necessary to support the universal service obligation.
This class includes:
~ pickup, sorting, transport and delivery (domestic or international) of letter-post and (mail-type) parcels and packages by postal services operating under a universal service obligation. One or more modes of transport may be involved and the activity may be carried out with either self-owned (private) transport or via PUBLIC transport.
~ collection of letter-mail and parcels from PUBLIC letter-boxes or from post offices
~ distribution and delivery of mail and parcels
- Class 5320
Courier activities
This class includes courier activities not operating under a universal service obligation.
This class includes:
~ pickup, sorting, transport and delivery (domestic or international) of letter-post and (mail-type) parcels and packages by firms not operating under a universal service obligation. One or more modes of transport may be involved and the activity may be carried out with either self-owned (private) transport or via PUBLIC transport.
~ distribution and delivery of mail and parcels
This class also includes:
~ home delivery services
- Class 6010
Radio broadcasting
This class includes:
~ broadcasting audio signals through radio broadcasting studios and facilities for the transmission of aural programming to the PUBLIC, to affiliates or to subscribers
This class also includes:
~ activities of radio networks, i.e. assembling and transmitting aural programming to the affiliates or subscribers via over-the-air broadcasts, cable or satellite
~ radio broadcasting activities over the Internet (Internet radio stations)
~ data broadcasting integrated with radio broadcasting
- Class 6910
Legal activities
This class includes:
~ legal representation of one party's interest against another party, whether or not before courts or other judicial bodies by, or under supervision of, persons who are members of the bar:
~ advice and representation in civil cases
~ advice and representation in criminal cases
~ advice and representation in connection with labour disputes
~ general counselling and advising, preparation of legal documents:
~ articles of incorporation, partnership agreements or similar documents in connection with company formation
~ patents and copyrights
~ preparation of deeds, wills, trusts etc.
~ other activities of notaries PUBLIC, civil law notaries, bailiffs, arbitrators, examiners and referees
- 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 7320
Market research and PUBLIC opinion polling
This class includes:
~ investigation into market potential, acceptance and familiarity of products and buying habits of consumers for the purpose of sales promotion and development of new products, including statistical analyses of the results
~ investigation into collective opinions of the PUBLIC about political, economic and social issues and statistical analysis thereof
- Class 8130
Landscape care and maintenance service activities
This class includes:
~ planting, care and maintenance of:
~ parks and gardens for:
~~ private and PUBLIC housing
~~ PUBLIC and semi PUBLIC,buildings (schools, hospitals, administrative buildings, church buildings etc.)
~~ municipal grounds (parks, green areas, cemeteries etc.)
~~ highway greenery (roads, train lines and tramlines, waterways, ports)
~~ industrial and commercial buildings
~ greenery for:
~~ buildings (roof gardens, façade greenery, indoor gardens)
~~ sports grounds (e.g. football fields, golf courses etc.), play grounds, lawns for sunbathing and other recreational parks
~~ stationary and flowing water (basins, alternating wet areas, ponds, swimming pools, ditches, watercourses, plant sewage systems)
~ plants for protection against noise, wind, erosion, visibility and dazzling
This class also includes:
~ maintenance of land in order to keep it in good ecological condition
- Class 8220
Activities of call centres
This class includes:
~ activities of inbound call centres, answering calls from clients by using human operators, automatic call distribution, computer telephone integration, interactive voice response systems or similar methods to receive orders, provide product information, deal with customer requests for assistance or address customer complaints
~ activities of outbound call centers using similar methods to sell or market goods or services to potential customers, undertake market research or PUBLIC opinion polling and similar activities for clients
- 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 8411
General PUBLIC administration activities
This class includes:
~ executive and legislative administration of central, regional and local bodies
~ administration and supervision of fiscal affairs:
~ operation of taxation schemes
~ duty/tax collection on goods and tax violation investigation
~ customs administration
~ budget implementation and management of PUBLIC funds and PUBLIC debt:
~ raising and receiving of moneys and control of their disbursement
~ administration of overall (civil) R&D policy and associated funds
~ administration and operation of overall economic and social planning and statistical services at the various levels of government
- Class 8412
Regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security
This class includes:
~ PUBLIC administration of programmes aimed to increase personal well-being:
~ health
~ education
~ culture
~ sport
~ recreation
~ environment
~ housing
~ social services
~ PUBLIC administration of R&D policies and associated funds for these areas
This class also includes:
~ sponsoring of recreational and cultural activities
~ distribution of PUBLIC grants to artists
~ administration of potable water supply programmes
~ administration of waste collection and disposal operations
~ administration of environmental protection programmes
~ administration of housing programmes
- 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
- Class 8423
Public order and safety activities
This class includes:
~ administration and operation of regular and auxiliary police forces supported by PUBLIC authorities and of port, border, coastguards and other special police forces, including traffic regulation, alien registration, maintenance of arrest records
~ firefighting and fire prevention:
~ administration and operation of regular and auxiliary fire brigades in fire prevention, firefighting, rescue of persons and animals, assistance in civic disasters, floods, road accidents etc.
~ administration and operation of administrative civil and criminal law courts, military tribunals and the judicial system, including legal representation and advice on behalf of the government or when provided by the government in cash or services
~ rendering of judgements and interpretations of the law
~ arbitration of civil actions
~ prison administration and provision of correctional services, including rehabilitation services, regardless of whether their administration and operation is done by government units or by private units on a contract or fee basis
~ provision of supplies for domestic emergency use in case of peacetime disasters
- Class 8549
Other education n.e.c.
This class includes the provision of instruction and specialized training, generally for adults, not comparable to the general education in groups 851-853. This class does not include activities of academic schools, colleges, and universities. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the unit's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through correspondence, radio, television, Internet, in classrooms or by other means. Such instruction does not lead to a high school diploma, baccalaureate or graduate degree.
This class includes:
~ education that is not definable by level
~ academic tutoring services
~ college board preparation
~ learning centres offering remedial courses
~ professional examination review courses
~ language instruction and conversational skills instruction
~ speed reading instruction
~ religious instruction
This class also includes:
~ automobile driving schools
~ flying schools
~ lifeguard training
~ survival training
~ PUBLIC speaking training
~ computer training
- Class 8790
Other residential care activities
This class includes the provision of residential and personal care services for persons, except the elderly and disabled, who are unable to fully care for themselves or who do not desire to live independently.
This class includes:
~ activities provided on a round-the-clock basis directed to provide social assistance to children and special categories of persons with some limits on ability for self-care, but where medical treatment or education are not important elements:
~ orphanages
~ children's boarding homes and hostels
~ temporary homeless shelters
~ institutions that take care of unmarried mothers and their children
The activities may be carried out by PUBLIC or private organizations.
This class also includes:
~ activities of:
~ halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems
~ halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
~ disciplinary camps
- Class 8810
Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
This class includes:
~ social, counselling, welfare, referral and similar services which are aimed at the elderly and disabled in their homes or elsewhere and carried out by PUBLIC or by private organizations, national or local self-help organizations and by specialists providing counselling services:
~ visiting of the elderly and disabled
~ day-care activities for the elderly or for handicapped adults
~ vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities for disabled persons provided that the education component is limited
- Class 8890
Other social work activities without accommodation
This class includes:
~ social, counselling, welfare, refugee, referral and similar services which are delivered to individuals and families in their homes or elsewhere and carried out by PUBLIC or by private organizations, disaster relief organizations and national or local self-help organizations and by specialists providing counselling services:
~ welfare and guidance activities for children and adolescents
~ adoption activities, activities for the prevention of cruelty to children and others
~ household budget counselling, marriage and family guidance, credit and debt counselling services
~ community and neighbourhood activities
~ activities for disaster victims, refugees, immigrants etc., including temporary or extended shelter for them
~ vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities for unemployed persons provided that the education component is limited
~ eligibility determination in connection with welfare aid, rent supplements or food stamps
~ child day-care activities, including for handicapped children
~ day facilities for the homeless and other socially weak groups
~ charitable activities like fund-raising or other supporting activities aimed at social work
- Class 9000
Creative, arts and entertainment activities
This class includes the operation of facilities and provision of services to meet the cultural and entertainment interests of their customers. This includes the production and promotion of, and participation in, live performances, events or exhibits intended for PUBLIC viewing; the provision of artistic, creative or technical skills for the production of artistic products and live performances.
This class includes:
~ production of live theatrical presentations, concerts and opera or dance productions and other stage productions:
~ activities of groups, circuses or companies, orchestras or bands
~ activities of individual artists such as authors, actors, directors, musicians, lecturers or speakers, stage-set designers and builders etc.
~ operation of concert and theatre halls and other arts facilities
~ activities of sculptors, painters, cartoonists, engravers, etchers etc.
~ activities of individual writers, for all subjects including fictional writing, technical writing etc.
~ activities of independent journalists
~ restoring of works of art such as paintings etc.
This class also includes:
~ activities of producers or entrepreneurs of arts live events, with or without facilities
- Class 9101
Library and archives activities
This class includes:
~ documentation and information activities of libraries of all kinds, reading, listening and viewing rooms, PUBLIC archives providing service to the general PUBLIC or to a special clientele, such as students, scientists, staff, members as well as operation of government archives:
~ organization of a collection, whether specialized or not
~ cataloguing collections
~ lending and storage of books, maps, periodicals, films, records, tapes, works of art etc.
~ retrieval activities in order to comply with information requests etc.
~ stock photo libraries and services
- Class 9411
Activities of business and employers membership organizations
This class includes:
~ activities of organizations whose members' interests centre on the development and prosperity of enterprises in a particular line of business or trade, including farming, or on the economic growth and climate of a particular geographical area or political subdivision without regard for the line of business.
~ activities of federations of such associations
~ activities of chambers of commerce, guilds and similar organizations
~ dissemination of information, representation before government agencies, PUBLIC relations and labour negotiations of business and employer organizations
- Class 9412
Activities of professional membership organizations
This class includes:
~ activities of organizations whose members' interests centre chiefly on a particular scientific discipline, professional practice or technical field, such as medical associations, legal associations, accounting associations, engineering associations, architects associations etc.
~ activities of associations of specialists engaged in cultural activities, such as associations of writers, painters, performers of various kinds, journalists etc.
~ dissemination of information, the establishment and supervision of standards of practice, representation before government agencies and PUBLIC relations of professional organizations
This class also includes:
~ activities of learned societies
- Class 9492
Activities of political organizations
This class includes:
~ activities of political organizations and auxiliary organizations such as young people's auxiliaries associated with a political party. These organizations chiefly engage in influencing decision-taking in PUBLIC governing bodies by placing members of the party or those sympathetic to the party in political office and involve the dissemination of information, PUBLIC relations, fund-raising etc.
- Class 9499
Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c.
This class includes:
~ activities of organizations not directly affiliated to a political party furthering a PUBLIC cause or issue by means of PUBLIC education, political influence, fund-raising etc.:
~ citizens initiative or protest movements
~ environmental and ecological movements
~ organizations supporting community and educational facilities n.e.c.
~ organizations for the protection and betterment of special groups, e.g. ethnic and minority groups
~ associations for patriotic purposes, including war veterans' associations
~ consumer associations
~ automobile associations
~ associations for the purpose of social acquaintanceship such as rotary clubs, lodges etc.
~ associations of youth, young persons' associations, student associations, clubs and fraternities etc.
~ associations for the pursuit of a cultural or recreational activity or hobby (other than sports or games), e.g. poetry, literature and book clubs, historical clubs, gardening clubs, film and photo clubs, music and art clubs, craft and collectors' clubs, social clubs, carnival clubs etc.
This class also includes:
~ grant giving activities by membership organizations or others
- Class 9601
Washing and (dry-) cleaning of textile and fur products
This class includes:
~ laundering and dry-cleaning, pressing etc., of all kinds of clothing (including fur) and textiles, provided by mechanical equipment, by hand or by self-service coin-operated machines, whether for the general PUBLIC or for industrial or commercial clients
~ laundry collection and delivery
~ carpet and rug shampooing and drapery and curtain cleaning, whether on clients' premises or not
~ provision of linens, work uniforms and related items by laundries
~ diaper supply services
This class also includes:
~ repair and minor alteration of garments or other textile articles when done in connection with cleaning
- Group 478
Retail sale via stalls and markets
This group includes the retail sale of any kind of new or second hand product in a usually movable stall either along a PUBLIC road or at a fixed marketplace.
- Group 732
Market research and PUBLIC opinion polling
See class 7320.
- Group 791
Travel agency and tour operator activities
This group includes the activities of agencies, primarily engaged in selling travel, tour, transportation and accommodation services to the general PUBLIC and commercial clients and the activity of arranging and assembling tours that are sold through travel agencies or directly by agents such as tour operators.
- Group 842
Provision of services to the community as a whole
This group includes foreign affairs, defence and PUBLIC order and safety activities.
- Division 84
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
See section O.
- Division 41
Construction of buildings
This division includes general construction of buildings of all kinds. It includes new work, repair, additions and alterations, the erection of pre-fabricated buildings or structures on the site and also construction of temporary nature.
Included is the construction of entire dwellings, office buildings, stores and other PUBLIC and utility buildings, farm buildings, etc.
- Division 47
Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
This division includes 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, hawkers and peddlers, consumer cooperatives etc.
Retail trade is classified first by type of sale outlet (retail trade in stores: groups 471 to 477; retail trade not in stores: groups 478 and 479). Retail trade in stores includes the retail sale of used goods (class 4774). For retail sale in stores, there exists a further distinction between specialized retail sale (groups 472 to 477) and non-specialized retail sale (group 471). The above groups are further subdivided by the range of products sold. Sale not via stores is subdivided according to the forms of trade, such as retail sale via stalls and markets (group 478) and other non-store retail sale, e.g. mail order, door-to-door, by vending machines etc. (group 479).
The goods sold in this division are limited to goods usually referred to as consumer goods or retail goods. Therefore goods not usually entering the retail trade, such as cereal grains, ores, industrial machinery etc., are excluded. This division also includes units engaged primarily in selling to the general PUBLIC, from displayed goods, products such as personal computers, stationery, paint or timber, although these sales may not be for personal or household use. Some processing of goods may be involved, but only incidental to selling, e.g. sorting or repackaging of goods, installation of a domestic appliance etc.
This division also includes the retail sale by commission agents and activities of retail auctioning houses.
This division excludes:
~ sale of farmers' products by farmers, see division 01
~ manufacture and sale of goods, which is generally classified as manufacturing in divisions 10-32
~ sale of motor vehicles, motorcycles and their parts, see division 45
~ trade in cereal grains, ores, crude petroleum, industrial chemicals, iron and steel and industrial machinery and equipment, see division 46
~ sale of food and drinks for consumption on the premises and sale of takeaway food, see division 56
~ renting of personal and household goods to the general PUBLIC, see group 772
- Division 58
Publishing activities
This division includes the publishing of books, brochures, leaflets, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, atlases, maps and charts; publishing of newspapers, journals and periodicals; directory and mailing list and other publishing, as well as software publishing.
Publishing includes the acquisition of copyrights to content (information products) and making this content available to the general PUBLIC by engaging in (or arranging for) the reproduction and distribution of this content in various forms. All the feasible forms of publishing (in print, electronic or audio form, on the Internet, as multimedia products such as CD-ROM reference books etc.), except publishing of motion pictures, are included in this division.
This division excludes the publishing of motion pictures, video tapes and movies on DVD or similar media (division 59) and the production of master copies for records or audio material (division 59). Also excluded are printing (see 1811) and the mass reproduction of recorded media (see 1820).
- Division 60
Programming and broadcasting activities
This division includes the activities of creating content or acquiring the right to distribute content and subsequently broadcasting that content, such as radio, television and data programs of entertainment, news, talk, and the like. Also included is data broadcasting, typically integrated with radio or TV broadcasting. The broadcasting can be performed using different technologies, over-the-air, via satellite, via a cable network or via Internet. This division also includes the production of programs that are typically narrowcast in nature (limited format, such as news, sports, education or youth-oriented programming) on a subscription or fee basis, to a third party, for subsequent broadcasting to the PUBLIC.
This division excludes the distribution of cable and other subscription programming (see division 61).
- Division 69
Legal and accounting activities
This division includes legal representation of one party's interest against another party, whether or not before courts or other judicial bodies by, or under supervision of, persons who are members of the bar, such as advice and representation in civil cases, advice and representation in criminal actions, advice and representation in connection with labour disputes. It also includes preparation of legal documents such as articles of incorporation, partnership agreements or similar documents in connection with company formation, patents and copyrights, preparation of deeds, wills, trusts, etc. as well as other activities of notaries PUBLIC, civil law notaries, bailiffs, arbitrators, examiners and referees. It also includes accounting and bookkeeping services such as auditing of accounting records, preparing financial statements and bookkeeping.
- Division 79
Travel agency, tour operator, reservation service and related activities
This division includes the activity of selling travel, tour, transportation and accommodation services to the general PUBLIC and commercial clients and the activity of arranging and assembling tours that are sold through travel agencies or directly by agents such as tour operators, as well as other travel-related services including reservation services. The activities of tourist guides and tourism promotion activities are also included.
- Division 94
Activities of membership organizations
This division includes activities of organizations representing interests of special groups or promoting ideas to the general PUBLIC. These organizations usually have a constituency of members, but their activities may involve and benefit non-members as well. The primary breakdown of this division is determined by the purpose that these organizations serve, namely interests of employers, self-employed individuals and the scientific community (group 941), interests of employees (group 942) or promotion of religious, political, cultural, educational or recreational ideas and activities (group 949).
- Section C
Manufacturing
This section includes the physical or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products, although this cannot be used as the single universal criterion for defining manufacturing (see remark on processing of waste below). The materials, substances, or components transformed are raw materials that are products of agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining or quarrying as well as products of other manufacturing activities. Substantial alteration, renovation or reconstruction of goods is generally considered to be manufacturing.
Units engaged in manufacturing are often described as plants, factories or mills and characteristically use power-driven machines and materials-handling equipment. However, units that transform materials or substances into new products by hand or in the worker's home and those engaged in selling to the general PUBLIC of products made on the same premises from which they are sold, such as bakeries and custom tailors, are also included in this section. Manufacturing units may process materials or may contract with other units to process their materials for them. Both types of units are included in manufacturing.
The output of a manufacturing process may be finished in the sense that it is ready for utilization or consumption, or it may be semi-finished in the sense that it is to become an input for further manufacturing. For example, the output of alumina refining is the input used in the primary production of aluminium; primary aluminium is the input to aluminium wire drawing; and aluminium wire is the input for the manufacture of fabricated wire products.
Manufacture of specialized components and parts of, and accessories and attachments to, machinery and equipment is, as a general rule, classified in the same class as the manufacture of the machinery and equipment for which the parts and accessories are intended. Manufacture of unspecialized components and parts of machinery and equipment, e.g. engines, pistons, electric motors, electrical assemblies, valves, gears, roller bearings, is classified in the appropriate class of manufacturing, without regard to the machinery and equipment in which these items may be included. However, making specialized components and accessories by moulding or extruding plastics materials is included in class 2220.
Assembly of the component parts of manufactured products is considered manufacturing. This includes the assembly of manufactured products from either self-produced or purchased components.
The recovery of waste, i.e. the processing of waste into secondary raw materials is classified in class 3830 (Materials recovery). While this may involve physical or chemical transformations, this is not considered to be a part of manufacturing. The primary purpose of these activities is considered to be the treatment or processing of waste and they are therefore classified in Section E (Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities). However, the manufacture of new final products (as opposed to secondary raw materials) is classified in manufacturing, even if these processes use waste as an input. For example, the production of silver from film waste is considered to be a manufacturing process.
Specialized maintenance and repair of industrial, commercial and similar machinery and equipment is, in general, classified in division 33 (Repair, maintenance and installation of machinery and equipment). However, the repair of computers and personal and household goods is classified in division 95 (Repair of computers and personal and household goods), while the repair of motor vehicles is classified in division 45 (Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles).
The installation of machinery and equipment, when carried out as a specialized activity, is classified in 3320.
Remark: The boundaries of manufacturing and the other sectors of the classification system can be somewhat blurry.
- Section F
Construction
This section includes general construction and specialized construction activities for buildings and civil engineering works. It includes new work, repair, additions and alterations, the erection of prefabricated buildings or structures on the site and also construction of a temporary nature.
General construction is the construction of entire dwellings, office buildings, stores and other PUBLIC and utility buildings, farm buildings etc., or the construction of civil engineering works such as motorways, streets, bridges, tunnels, railways, airfields, harbours and other water projects, irrigation systems, sewerage systems, industrial facilities, pipelines and electric lines, sports facilities etc.
This work can be carried out on own account or on a fee or contract basis. Portions of the work and sometimes even the whole practical work can be subcontracted out. A unit that carries the overall responsibility for a construction project is classified here.
Also included is the repair of buildings and engineering works.
This section includes the complete construction of buildings (division 41), the complete construction of civil engineering works (division 42), as well as specialized construction activities, if carried out only as a part of the construction process (division 43).
The renting of construction equipment with operator is classified with the specific construction activity carried out with this equipment.
This section also includes the development of building projects for buildings or civil engineering works by bringing together financial, technical and physical means to realize the construction projects for later sale. If these activities are carried out not for later sale of the construction projects, but for their operation (e.g. renting of space in these buildings, manufacturing activities in these plants), the unit would not be classified here, but according to its operational activity, i.e. real estate, manufacturing etc.
- Section R
Arts, entertainment and recreation
This section includes a wide range of activities to meet varied cultural, entertainment and recreational interests of the general PUBLIC, including live performances, operation of museum sites, gambling, sports and recreation activities.
- 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.
- Section J
Information and communication
This section includes the production and distribution of information and cultural products, the provision of the means to transmit or distribute these products, as well as data or communications, information technology activities and the processing of data and other information service activities.
The main components of this section are publishing activities (division 58), including software publishing, motion picture and sound recording activities (division 59), radio and TV broadcasting and programming activities (division 60), telecommunications activities (division 61) and information technology activities (division 62) and other information service activities (division 63).
Publishing includes the acquisition of copyrights to content (information products) and making this content available to the general PUBLIC by engaging in (or arranging for) the reproduction and distribution of this content in various forms. All the feasible forms of publishing (in print, electronic or audio form, on the internet, as multimedia products such as CD-ROM reference books etc.) are included in this section.
Activities related to production and distribution of TV programming span divisions 59, 60 and 61, reflecting different stages in this process. Individual components, such as movies, television series etc. are produced by activities in division 59, while the creation of a complete television channel programme, from components produced in division 59 or other components (such as live news programming) is included in division 60. Division 60 also includes the broadcasting of this programme by the producer. The distribution of the complete television programme by third parties, i.e. without any alteration of the content, is included in division 61. This distribution in division 61 can be done through broadcasting, satellite or cable systems.
- Section O
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
This section includes activities of a governmental nature, normally carried out by the PUBLIC administration. This includes the enactment and judicial interpretation of laws and their pursuant regulation, as well as the administration of programmes based on them, legislative activities, taxation, national defence, PUBLIC order and safety, immigration services, foreign affairs and the administration of government programmes. This section also includes compulsory social security activities.
The legal or institutional status is not, in itself, the determining factor for an activity to belong in this section, rather than the activity being of a nature specified in the previous paragraph. This means that activities classified elsewhere in ISIC do not fall under this section, even if carried out by PUBLIC entities. For example, administration of the school system (i.e. regulations, checks, curricula) falls under this section, but teaching itself does not (see section P), and a prison or military hospital is classified to health (see section Q). Similarly, some activities described in this section may be carried out by non-government units.
- Section P
Education
This section includes education at any level or for any profession, oral or written as well as by radio and television or other means of communication. It includes education by the different institutions in the regular school system at its different levels as well as adult education, literacy programmes etc. Also included are military schools and academies, prison schools etc. at their respective levels. The section includes PUBLIC as well as private education.
For each level of initial education, the classes include special education for physically or mentally handicapped pupils.
The breakdown of the categories in this section is based on the level of education offered as defined by the levels of ISCED 1997. The activities of educational institutions providing education at ISCED levels 0 and 1 are classified in group 851, those at ISCED levels 2 and 3 in group 852 and those at ISCED levels 4, 5 and 6 in group 853.
This section also includes instruction primarily concerned with sport and recreational activities such as bridge or golf and education support activities.