Published: 13.02.2023.
Updated: 26.03.2024.
Responsible authority
Central Statistical Bureau
Status
European Union
Abbreviation
NACE 2.1
Purpose of introduction
  • establishment of common classification of economic activities in the EU helping to determine type of economic activity of institutional units engaged in manufacturing or other economic sectors;
  • improvement of comparability of national, EU and international statistics.
Classification object

Kinds of economic activity.

Area of application
  • compilation of statistics based on economic activities;
  • maintenance of national information systems.
Legal basis

Approved by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 October 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 (Text with EEA relevance).

Author

Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)

Planned update or revision

NACE 2.1 rev. use is intended from 01.01.2025.

Availability
Coding system, code length, number of levels

Coding system – decimally hierarchical
Code length – four digits
Number of levels – 4

Description of levels
Level 1: 22 sections identified by alphabetical letter;
Level 2: 87 divisions identified by two-digit numerical codes (01 to 99);
Level 3: 287 groups identified by three-digit numerical codes (01.1 to 99.0);
Level 4: 651 classes identified by four-digit numerical codes (01.11 to 99.00).

Ieva Kurme

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