There are 66 Economic Activities in all levels that containg the word "SERVICE" in their name or detailed description. Have you that what you are searching for?
- Class 0170
Hunting, trapping and related SERVICE activities
This class includes:
~ hunting and trapping on a commercial basis
~ taking of animals (dead or alive) for food, fur, skin, or for use in research, in zoos or as pets
~ production of fur skins, reptile or bird skins from hunting or trapping activities
This class also includes:
~ land-based catching of sea mammals such as walrus and seal
- Class 0240
Support services to forestry
This class includes carrying out part of the forestry operation on a fee or contract basis.
This class includes:
~ forestry SERVICE activities:
~ forestry inventories
~ forest management consulting services
~ timber evaluation
~ forest fire fighting and protection
~ forest pest control
~ logging SERVICE activities:
~ transport of logs within the forest
- Class 5222
Service activities incidental to water transportation
This class includes:
~ activities related to water transport of passengers, animals or freight:
~ operation of terminal facilities such as harbours and piers
~ operation of waterway locks etc.
~ navigation, pilotage and berthing activities
~ lighterage, salvage activities
~ lighthouse activities
- Class 6399
Other information SERVICE activities n.e.c.
This class includes other information SERVICE activities not elsewhere classified, such as:
~ telephone based information services
~ information search services on a contract or fee basis
~ news clipping services, press clipping services, etc.
- Class 0910
Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
This class includes:
~ oil and gas extraction SERVICE activities provided on a fee or contract basis:
~ exploration services in connection with petroleum or gas extraction, e.g. traditional prospecting methods, such as making geological observations at prospective sites
~ directional drilling and redrilling; spudding in; derrick erection in situ, repairing and dismantling; cementing oil and gas well casings; pumping of wells; plugging and abandoning wells etc.
~ liquefaction and regasification of natural gas for purpose of transport, done at the mine site
~ draining and pumping services, on a fee or contract basis
~ test drilling in connection with petroleum or gas extraction
This class also includes:
~ oil and gas field fire fighting services
- Class 1812
Service activities related to printing
This class includes:
~ binding of printed sheets, e.g. into books, brochures, magazines, catalogues etc., by folding, assembling, stitching, glueing, collating, basting, adhesive binding, trimming, gold stamping
~ composition, typesetting, phototypesetting, pre-press data input including scanning and optical character recognition, electronic make-up
~ plate-making services including imagesetting and plate-setting (for the printing processes letterpress and offset)
~ engraving or etching of cylinders for gravure
~ plate processes direct to plate (also photopolymer plates)
~ preparation of plates and dies for relief stamping or printing
~ production of proofs
~ artistic work including preparation of litho stones and prepared woodblocks
~ production of reprographic products
~ design of printing products e.g. sketches, layouts, dummies etc.
~ other graphic activities such as die-sinking or die-stamping, Braille copying, punching and drilling, embossing, varnishing and laminating, collating and insetting, creasing
- Class 3020
Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
This class includes:
~ manufacture of electric, diesel, steam and other rail locomotives
~ manufacture of self-propelled railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks, maintenance or SERVICE vehicles
~ manufacture of railway or tramway rolling stock, not self-propelled:
~ passenger coaches, goods vans, tank wagons, self-discharging vans and wagons, workshop vans, crane vans, tenders etc.
~ manufacture of specialized parts of railway or tramway locomotives or of rolling stock:
~ bogies, axles and wheels, brakes and parts of brakes; hooks and coupling devices, buffers and buffer parts; shock absorbers; wagon and locomotive frames; bodies; corridor connections etc.
This class also includes:
~ manufacture of mechanical and electromechanical signalling, safety and traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, inland waterways, roads, parking facilities, airfields etc.
~ manufacture of mining locomotives and mining rail cars
~ manufacture of railway car seats
- Class 5221
Service activities incidental to land transportation
This class includes:
~ activities related to land transport of passengers, animals or freight:
~ operation of terminal facilities such as railway stations, bus stations, stations for the handling of goods
~ operation of railroad infrastructure
~ operation of roads, bridges, tunnels, car parks or garages, bicycle parkings
~ switching and shunting
~ towing and road side assistance
This class also includes:
~ liquefaction of gas for transportation purposes
- Class 5223
Service activities incidental to air transportation
This class includes:
~ activities related to air transport of passengers, animals or freight:
~ operation of terminal facilities such as airway terminals etc.
~ airport and air-traffic-control activities
~ ground SERVICE activities on airfields etc.
This class also includes:
~ firefighting and fire-prevention services at airports
- 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 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 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 5610
Restaurants and mobile food SERVICE activities
This class includes the provision of food services to customers, whether they are served while seated or serve themselves from a display of items, whether they eat the prepared meals on the premises, take them out or have them delivered. This includes the preparation and serving of meals for immediate consumption from motorized vehicles or non-motorized carts.
This class includes activities of:
~ restaurants
~ cafeterias
~ fast-food restaurants
~ pizza delivery
~ take-out eating places
~ ice cream truck vendors
~ mobile food carts
~ food preparation in market stalls
This class also includes:
~ restaurant and bar activities connected to transportation, when carried out by separate units
- Class 8030
Investigation activities
This class includes:
~ investigation and detective SERVICE activities
~ activities of all private investigators, independent of the type of client or purpose of investigation
- Class 5629
Other food SERVICE activities
This class includes industrial catering, i.e. the provision of food services based on contractual arrangements with the customer, for a specific period of time.
Also included is the operation of food concessions at sports and similar facilities. The food is often prepared in a central unit.
This class includes:
~ activities of food SERVICE contractors (e.g. for transportation companies)
~ operation of food concessions at sports and similar facilities
~ operation of canteens or cafeterias (e.g. for factories, offices, hospitals or schools) on a concession basis
- Class 5920
Sound recording and music publishing activities
This class includes:
~ production of original (sound) master recordings, such as tapes, CDs
~ sound recording SERVICE activities in a studio or elsewhere, including the production of taped (i.e. non-live) radio programming, audio for film, television etc.
~ music publishing, i.e. activities of:
~ acquiring and registering copyrights for musical compositions
~ promoting, authorizing and using these compositions in recordings, radio, television, motion pictures, live performances, print and other media
~ distributing sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers or directly to the public
Units engaged in these activities may own the copyright or act as administrator of the music copyrights on behalf of the copyright owners.
This class also includes:
~ publishing of music and sheet books
- Class 6209
Other information technology and computer SERVICE activities
This class includes other information technology and computer related activities not elsewhere classified, such as:
~ computer disaster recovery
~ installation (setting-up) of personal computers
~ software installation
- Class 6311
Data processing, hosting and related activities
This class includes:
~ provision of infrastructure for hosting, data processing services and related activities
~ specialized hosting activities such as:
~ Web hosting
~ streaming services
~ application hosting
~ application SERVICE provisioning
~ general time-share provision of mainframe facilities to clients
~ data processing activities:
~ complete processing of data supplied by clients
~ generation of specialized reports from data supplied by clients
~ provision of data entry services
- 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 6492
Other credit granting
This class includes:
~ financial SERVICE activities primarily concerned with making loans by institutions not involved in monetary intermediation, where the granting of credit can take a variety of forms, such as loans, mortgages, credit cards etc., providing the following types of services:
~ granting of consumer credit
~ international trade financing
~ provision of long-term finance to industry by industrial banks
~ money lending outside the banking system
~ credit granting for house purchase by specialized non-depository institutions
~ pawnshops and pawnbrokers
- Class 6499
Other financial SERVICE activities, except insurance and pension funding activities, n.e.c.
This class includes:
~ other financial SERVICE activities primarily concerned with distributing funds other than by making loans:
~ factoring activities
~ writing of swaps, options and other hedging arrangements
~ activities of viatical settlement companies
~ own-account investment activities, such as by venture capital companies, investment clubs etc.
- Class 6619
Other activities auxiliary to financial SERVICE activities
This class includes activities auxiliary to financial SERVICE activities not elsewhere classified, such as:
~ financial transaction processing and settlement activities, including for credit card transactions
~ investment advisory services
~ activities of mortgage advisers and brokers
This class also includes:
~ trustee, fiduciary and custody services on a fee or contract basis
- 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 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 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 7990
Other reservation SERVICE and related activities
This class includes:
~ provision of other travel-related reservation services:
~ reservations for transportation, hotels, restaurants, car rentals, entertainment and sport etc.
~ provision of time-share exchange services
~ ticket sales activities for theatrical, sports and other amusement and entertainment events
~ provision of visitor assistance services:
~ provision of travel information to visitors
~ activities of tourist guides
~ tourism promotion activities
- Class 8020
Security systems SERVICE activities
This class includes:
~ monitoring or remote monitoring of electronic security alarm systems, such as burglar and fire alarms, including their maintenance
~ installing, repairing, rebuilding, and adjusting mechanical or electronic locking devices, safes and security vaults
The units carrying out these activities may also engage in selling such security systems, mechanical or electronic locking devices, safes and security vaults.
- 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 8211
Combined office administrative SERVICE activities
This class includes:
~ provision of a combination of day-to-day office administrative services, such as reception, financial planning, billing and record keeping, personnel and physical distribution (mail services) and logistics for others on a contract or fee basis.
- 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 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 9491
Activities of religious organizations
This class includes:
~ activities of religious organizations or individuals providing services directly to worshippers in churches, mosques, temples, synagogues or other places
~ activities of organizations providing monastery and convent services
~ religious retreat activities
This class also includes:
~ religious funeral SERVICE activities
- 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
- Class 9609
Other personal SERVICE activities n.e.c.
This class includes:
~ activities of Turkish baths, sauna and steam baths, solariums, reducing and slendering salons, massage salons etc.
~ astrological and spiritualists' activities
~ social activities such as escort services, dating services, services of marriage bureaux
~ pet care services such as boarding, grooming, sitting and training pets
~ genealogical organizations
~ shoe shiners, porters, valet car parkers etc.
~ concession operation of coin-operated personal SERVICE machines (photo booths, weighing machines, machines for checking blood pressure, coin-operated lockers etc.)
- Class 9820
Undifferentiated SERVICE,producing activities of private households for own use
This class includes:
~ undifferentiated subsistence services-producing activities of households, i.e. the activities of households that are engaged in a variety of activities that produce services for their own subsistence. These activities include cooking, teaching, caring for household members and other services produced by the household for its own subsistence.
If households are also engaged in the production of multiple goods for subsistence purposes, they are classified to the undifferentiated goods-producing subsistence activities of households.
- Group 017
Hunting, trapping and related SERVICE activities
See class 0170.
- Group 181
Printing and SERVICE activities related to printing
This group includes printing of products, such as newspapers, books, periodicals, business forms, greeting cards, and other materials, and associated support activities, such as bookbinding, plate-making services, and data imaging. Printing can be done using various techniques and on different materials.
- Group 561
Restaurants and mobile food SERVICE activities
See class 5610.
- Group 562
Event catering and other food SERVICE activities
This group includes catering activities for individual events or for a specified period of time and the operation of food concessions, such as at sports or similar facilities.
- Group 639
Other information SERVICE activities
This group includes the activities of news agencies and all other remaining information SERVICE activities.
- Group 259
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products; metalworking SERVICE activities
This group includes general activities for the treatment of metal, such as forging or pressing, plating, coating, engraving, boring, polishing, welding etc., which are typically carried out on a fee or contract basis. This group also includes the manufacture of a variety of metal products, such as cutlery; metal hand tools and general hardware; cans and buckets; nails, bolts and nuts; metal household articles; metal fixtures; ships propellers and anchors; assembled railway track fixtures etc. for a variety of household and industrial uses.
- Group 649
Other financial SERVICE activities, except insurance and pension funding activities
This group includes financial SERVICE activities other than those conducted by monetary institutions.
- Group 661
Activities auxiliary to financial SERVICE activities, except insurance and pension funding
This group includes the furnishing of physical or electronic marketplaces for the purpose of facilitating the buying and selling of stocks, stock options, bonds or commodity contracts.
- Group 799
Other reservation SERVICE and related activities
See class 7990.
- Group 802
Security systems SERVICE activities
See class 8020.
- Group 813
Landscape care and maintenance SERVICE activities
See class 8130.
- 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 960
Other personal SERVICE activities
See division 96.
- Group 982
Undifferentiated SERVICE,producing activities of private households for own use
See class 9820.
- Division 01
Crop and animal production, hunting and related SERVICE activities
This division includes two basic activities, namely the production of crop products and production of animal products, covering also the forms of organic agriculture, the growing of genetically modified crops and the raising of genetically modified animals.
This division also includes SERVICE activities incidental to agriculture, as well as hunting, trapping and related activities.
Group 015 (Mixed farming) breaks with the usual principles for identifying main activity. It accepts that many agricultural holdings have reasonably balanced crop and animal production and that it would be arbitrary to classify them in one category or the other.
Agricultural activities exclude any subsequent processing of the agricultural products (classified under divisions 10 and 11 (Manufacture of food products and beverages) and division 12 (Manufacture of tobacco products)), beyond that needed to prepare them for the primary markets. However, the preparation of products for the primary markets is included here.
The division excludes field construction (e.g. agricultural land terracing, drainage, preparing rice paddies etc.) classified in section F (Construction) and buyers and cooperative associations engaged in the marketing of farm products classified in section G.
- Division 63
Information SERVICE activities
This division includes the activities of web search portals, data processing and hosting activities, as well as other activities that primarily supply information.
- Division 09
Mining support SERVICE activities
This division includes specialized support services incidental to mining provided on a fee or contract basis. It includes exploration services through traditional prospecting methods such as taking core samples and making geological observations as well as drilling, test-drilling or redrilling for oil wells, metallic and non-metallic minerals. Other typical services cover building oil and gas well foundations, cementing oil and gas well casings, cleaning, bailing and swabbing oil and gas wells, draining and pumping mines, overburden removal services at mines, etc.
- Division 64
Financial SERVICE activities, except insurance and pension funding
This division includes the activities of obtaining and redistributing funds other than for the purpose of insurance or pension funding or compulsory social security.
Note: National institutional arrangements are likely to play a significant role in determining the classification within this division.
- Division 66
Activities auxiliary to financial SERVICE and insurance activities
This division includes the provision of services involved in or closely related to financial SERVICE activities, but not themselves providing financial services. The primary breakdown of this division is according to the type of financial transaction or funding served.
- Division 56
Food and beverage SERVICE activities
This division includes food and beverage serving activities providing complete meals or drinks fit for immediate consumption, whether in traditional restaurants, self SERVICE,or take-away restaurants, whether as permanent or temporary stands with or without seating. Decisive is the fact that meals fit for immediate consumption are offered, not the kind of facility providing them.
Excluded is the production of meals not fit for immediate consumption or not planned to be consumed immediately or of prepared food which is not considered to be a meal (see divisions 10: Manufacture of food products and 11: Manufacture of beverages). Also excluded is the sale of not self-manufactured food that is not considered to be a meal or of meals that are not fit for immediate consumption (see section G: Wholesale and retail trade; ...).
- Division 96
Other personal SERVICE activities
This division includes all SERVICE activities not mentioned elsewhere in the classification. Notably it includes types of services such as washing and (dry-)cleaning of textiles and fur products, hairdressing and other beauty treatment, funeral and related activities.
- Division 59
Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities
This division includes production of theatrical and non-theatrical motion pictures whether on film, videotape or disc for direct projection in theatres or for broadcasting on television; supporting activities such as film editing, cutting, dubbing etc.; distribution of motion pictures and other film productions to other industries; as well as motion picture or other film productions projection. Also included is the buying and selling of distribution rights for motion pictures or other film productions.
This division also includes the sound recording activities, i.e. production of original sound master recordings, releasing, promoting and distributing them, publishing of music as well as sound recording SERVICE activities in a studio or elsewhere.
- Division 61
Telecommunications
This division includes the activities of providing telecommunications and related SERVICE activities, i.e. transmitting voice, data, text, sound and video. The transmission facilities that carry out these activities may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies. The commonality of activities classified in this division is the transmission of content, without being involved in its creation. The breakdown in this division is based on the type of infrastructure operated.
In the case of transmission of television signals this may include the bundling of complete programming channels (produced in division 60) in to programme packages for distribution.
- 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 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 B
Mining and quarrying
This section includes the extraction of minerals occurring naturally as solids (coal and ores), liquids (petroleum) or gases (natural gas). Extraction can be achieved by different methods such as underground or surface mining, well operation, seabed mining etc.
This section also includes supplementary activities aimed at preparing the crude materials for marketing, for example, crushing, grinding, cleaning, drying, sorting, concentrating ores, liquefaction of natural gas and agglomeration of solid fuels. These operations are often carried out by the units that extracted the resource and/or others located nearby.
Mining activities are classified into divisions, groups and classes on the basis of the principal mineral produced. Divisions 05, 06 are concerned with mining and quarrying of fossil fuels (coal, lignite, petroleum, gas); divisions 07, 08 concern metal ores, various minerals and quarry products.
Some of the technical operations of this section, particularly related to the extraction of hydrocarbons, may also be carried out for third parties by specialized units as an industrial SERVICE, which is reflected in division 09.
This section excludes the processing of the extracted materials (see section C - Manufacturing), which also covers the bottling of natural spring and mineral waters at springs and wells (see class 1104) or the crushing, grinding or otherwise treating certain earths, rocks and minerals not carried out in conjunction with mining and quarrying (see class 2399). This section also excludes the usage of the extracted materials without a further transformation for construction purposes (see section F - Construction), the collection, purification and distribution of water (see class 3600), separate site preparation activities for mining (see class 4312) and geophysical, geologic and seismic surveying activities (see class 7110).
- Section K
Financial and insurance activities
This section includes financial SERVICE activities, including insurance, reinsurance and pension funding activities and activities to support financial services.
This section also includes the activities of holding assets, such as activities of holding companies and the activities of trusts, funds and similar financial entities.
- Section N
Administrative and support SERVICE activities
This section includes a variety of activities that support general business operations. These activities differ from those in section M, since their primary purpose is not the transfer of specialized knowledge.
- Section I
Accommodation and food SERVICE activities
This section includes the provision of short-stay accommodation for visitors and other travellers and the provision of complete meals and drinks fit for immediate consumption. The amount and type of supplementary services provided within this section can vary widely.
This section excludes the provision of long-term accommodation as primary residences, which is classified in Real estate activities (section L). Also excluded is the preparation of food or drinks that are either not fit for immediate consumption or that are sold through independent distribution channels, i.e. through wholesale or retail trade activities. The preparation of these foods is classified in Manufacturing (section C).
- 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 S
Other SERVICE activities
This section (as a residual category) includes the activities of membership organizations, the repair of computers and personal and household goods and a variety of personal SERVICE activities not covered elsewhere in the classification.