Commission Regulation (EC) No 1726/1999 of 27 July 1999 Implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs as regards the definition and transmission of information on labour costs
Date: 1999-07-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, exchange of information, pay, wage cost

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1726/1999

of 27 July 1999

Implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 (1) concerning structural statistics on earnings
and on labour costs as regards the definition and transmission of information on labour costs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 (1) of 9
March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on
labour costs and in particular Article 11 thereof,

Article 1

Definition and breakdown of the information

In accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 530/1999,
Member States shall provide information on the variables listed
in Annex I to the present Regualtion.

To this end, the definitions of the variables are laid down in
Annex II to the present Regulation.

Article 2

(1) Whereas, in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation
(EC) No 530/99 implementing measures are necessary
concerning the definition and breakdown of the infor-
mation to be provided and the appropriate technical
format for the transmission of the results;

Technical format for the transmission of the results

The appropriate technical format to be used for the transmis-
sion of the results is laid down in Annex III to the present
Regulation.

(2) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion delivered by the
Statistical Programme Committee established by Council
Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (2),

Article 3

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day after its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 July 1999.

For the Commission

Yves-Thibault DE SILGUY

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 63, 12.3.1999, p. 6.
(2) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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ANNEX I

LIST OF VARIABLES

Structural statistics on labour costs

Table A - National data

Table B - National data by size class of enterprise

Table C - Regional data

Variables

Total staff employed
Total number of employees (1)
Full-time employees (excluding apprentices)
Part-time employees (excluding apprentices)
Part-time employees converted into full-time units
Apprentices
Apprentices converted into full-time units

Hours worked
Hours worked by all employees (1)
Hours worked by full-time employees (excluding apprentices)
Hours worked by part-time employees (excluding apprentices)
Hours worked by apprentices

Paid hours
Paid hours for all employees (1)
Paid hours for full-time employees (excluding apprentices)
Paid hours for part-time employees (excluding apprentices)
Paid hours for apprentices

A.
A.1
A.11
A.12
A.121
A.13
A.131

B.
B.1
B.11
B.12
B.13

C.
C.1
C.11
C.12
C.13

Payments to employees savings schemes
Payments for days not worked

Total labour costs
Compensation of employees (1)
Wages and salaries (total)
Wages and salaries (excluding apprentices)
Direct remuneration and bonuses

D.
D.1
D.11
D.111
D.1111
D.11111 Direct remuneration
Bonuses (2)
D.11112
D.111121 Bonuses paid at fixed period (optional)
D.1112
D.1113
D.1114 Wages and salaries in kind
D.11141 Company products (optional)
D11142
D.11143 Company cars (optional)
D.11144 Other (optional)
D.112
D.12
D.121
D.1211
D.1212
D.122
D.1221
D.1222

Staff housing (3) (optional)

Wages and salaries of apprentices
Employers’ social contributions (total)
Employers’ actual social contributions (excluding apprentices)
Statutory social security contributions
Collectively agreed, contractual and voluntary social security contributions
Employers’ imputed social contributions (excluding apprentices)
Guaranteed remuneration in the event of sickness
Guaranteed remuneration in event of short-time working

B

X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X

X
X
X

X
X
X

X

C

X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X

X
X
X

X
X
X

X

A

X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

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Variables

D.1123
D.1124
D.123
D.2
D.3
D.4
D.5

Payments to employees leaving the enterprise
Employers’ imputed social benefits (4)
Employers’ social contributions for apprentices
Vocational training costs (excluding costs for apprentices)
Other expenditure
Taxes
Subsidies

E.
E.1
E.2

F.
F.1
F.2
F.3

Information on units
Local units, universe
Local units, sample

Persons employed by temporary employment agencies
Number of persons (optional)
Employment costs (optional)
Hours worked (optional)

B

C

X
X
X
X
X

X
X

X
X
X
X
X

X
X

A

X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X

X
X
X

‘The Member States may make provisions to distinguish between manual workers and non-manual workers and to record
more detailed data for the following variables:

Family allowances

Payments for days not worked

Statutory social security contributions

Total staff employed
Bonuses

— A.
— D.11112
— D.111121 Bonuses paid at fixed period
— D.1113
— D.1114 Wages and salaries in kind
— D.11144 Other wages and salaries in kind
— D.1211
— D.12111 Retirement pension, sickness, maternity, disability; unemployment; occupational accidents and diseases
— D.12112
— D.121113 Other
— D.1212
— D.12121
— D.12122
— D.12123
— D.12124 Other
— D.1221
— D.1224
— D.2
— D.3
— D.31
— D.32

Collectively agreed, contractual and voluntary social security contributions payable by the employer
Supplementary pension schemes
Supplementary sickness insurance schemes
Supplementary unemployment insurance schemes

Guaranteed remuneration in the event of sickness
imputed social benefits
Employers’
Vocational training costs paid by the employer
Other expenditure paid by the employer
Recruitment costs
Other'

(1) Persons employed by temporary agencies, are to be included in the industry of the agency which employs them, (NACE Rev. 1, 74.50)

and not in the industry of the enterprise for which they actually work.

(2) Except payments to employees saving schemes.
(3) Minus removal allowances.
(4) Welfare services, occupational health services, study grants for employees and their families.

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ANNEX II

DEFINITIONS OF THE VARIABLES

A. TOTAL STAFF EMPLOYED

Employees are all persons who have a direct employment contract with the enterprise or local unit and receive
remuneration, irrespective of the type of work performed, the number of hours worked (full or part-time) and the
duration of the contract (fixed or indefinite). The outworkers (1) should be included if there is an explicit agreement
that the outworker is remunerated on the basis of the work done: that is, the amount of labour which is contributed
as an input
into some process of production. The following should be excluded: management staff whose
remuneration mainly takes the form of a share in profits or a lump sum, family workers and sales representatives.

Reference ESA 95: 11.12 to 11.14

A.1 Total number of employees (2)

A.11 Full-time employees

This covers staff (excluding apprentices) whose regular working hours are the same as the collectively agreed or
customary hours worked in the enterprise, even if their contract is for less than one year.

A.12 Part-time employees

This covers staff (excluding apprentices) whose regular working hours are less than the collectively agreed or
customary hours worked in the enterprise, whether daily, weekly or monthly (half-day, threequarter time, fourfifths
time, etc.)

A.121 Part-time employees converted into full-time units

This conversion is to be carried out either directly by the enterprises or local units making returns or by the national
statistical institutes on the basis of the normal working hours of full-time workers in this enterprise/local unit, using
the method they consider most appropriate.

Reference ESA 95: 11.32 to 11.34

A.11+121 Total number of employees in full time unit

This includes full-time employees and part-time employees converted into full time units.

A.13 Apprentices

This covers all employees who do not yet fully participate in the production process and work either under an
apprenticeship contract or in a situation in which vocational training predominates over productivity.

A.131 Part-time apprentices converted into full-time units

This conversion is to be carried out either directly by the enterprises or local units making returns or by the national
statistical institutes (the hours spent in training either in the firm or in school are therefore excluded), using the
method they consider most appropriate.

Reference ESA 95: 11.32 to 11.34

B. HOURS WORKED

The statistics cover the total number of hours worked by all employees during the year (3). The total number of
hours worked is recorded separately for full-time (B.11), part-time employees (B.12) and apprentices (B.13).

Annual number of hours worked are defined as: hours actually worked.

NB: Hours worked in addition to normal working hours, irrespective of the hourly pay rate applied (i.e. one hour
worked at double time) should be entered as one hour.

(1) An outworker is a person who agrees to work for a particular enterprise or to supply a certain quantity of goods or services to a
particular enterprise by prior arrangement or contract with that enterprise, but whose place of work is not within it (Reference ESA
95: 11.13(g)).

(2) Persons employed by temporary employment agencies are to be included in the industry of the agency which employs them,

(NACE Rev.1 74.50) and not in the industry of the enterprise for which they actually work.

(3) The hours worked by persons employed by temporary employment agencies, are to be included in the industry of the agency

which employs them, (NACE Rev.1, 74.50) and not in the industry of the enterprise for which they actually work.

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Hours worked also include:

(a) time spent on tasks such as work preparation, preparing, maintaining and cleaning tools and machines and

writing up work cards and reports;

(b) time spent at the place of work during which no work is done owing to, for example, machine stoppages,
lack of work but for which payment is made in accordance with the employment

accidents or occasional
contract;

(c) short rest periods at the place of work,

including tea and coffee breaks;

(d) hours actually worked by apprentices.

Hours actually worked do not, however,

include the following:

(a) hours paid but not worked, for example paid leave, public holidays, sick leave, etc.;

(b) meal breaks;

(c) time spent travelling between home and place of work;

(d) hours of training of apprentices

Reference ESA 95: 11.26 to 11.29

C.

PAID HOURS

The statistics cover the total number of hours paid to all employees during the year (see footnote (3), page 31). The
total number of paid hours is recorded separately for full-time (C.11), part-time employees (C.12) and apprentices
(C.13).

Annual number of paid hours is defined as

(a) normal and overtime hours, remunerated during the year;

(b) any hours for which the employee was paid at a reduced rate, even if the difference was made up by payments

from social security funds;

(c) hours not worked during the reference period but nevertheless paid (annual leave, sick leave, official holidays and

other hours paid such as for medical examination).

In order to obtain a correct estimation of the annual working time, it is advisable not to ask directly for the total
number of hours worked (B.1) or the total number of paid hours (C.1) but to ask the following separate questions:

(a) normal annual paid hours for a full-time employee in the enterprise or local unit;

(b) average number of days of paid leave and public holidays per employee during the year;

(c) average number of days per employee of short paid periods of absence (leave for moving house, employee’s

marriage, wife’s confinement, death of a member of the family, etc.);

(d) total number of hours of overtime worked during the year;

(e) total number of days of short-time work;

(f) total number of days of sick leave and maternity leave;

(g) other days of absence.

D. TOTAL LABOUR COSTS

These are taken to mean the total expenditure borne by employers in order to employ workers, a concept which has
been adopted in the Community framework and complies broadly with the international definition of the Inter-
national Conference of Labour Statisticians (Geneva, 1966). Labour costs include compensation of employees, with
wages and salaries in cash and in kind, employers’ social contributions (D.1); vocational training costs (D.2), other
expenditures (D.3), taxes relating to employment regarded as labour costs (D.4), less any subsidies received (D.5). The
costs for persons employed by temporary employment agencies are to be included in the industry of the agency
which employs them (NACE Rev.1 74.50) and not in the industry of the enterprise for which they actually work.

D.1 Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees is defined as the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an
employee in return for work done by the latter during the reference period. It is broken down into:

— wages and salaries (D.11): wages and salaries in cash excluding apprentices (D.111); wages and salaries in kind

(D.1114) and wages and salaries of apprentices (D.112);

— employers’ social contributions (D.12): employers’ actual social contributions (excluding apprentices) (D.121);
employers’ imputed social contributions (excluding apprentices) (D.122): employers’ actual social contributions
for apprentices (D.123).

Reference ESA 95: 4.02 (code D.1)

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D.11 Wages and salaries (total)

Wages and salaries are recorded in the period during which the work is done. However, ad hoc bonuses or other
exceptional payments, 13th month, etc. are recorded when they are due to be paid.

Reference ESA 95 : 4.03 to 4.07 and 4.12(a) (code D.11)

D.111 Wages and salaries (excluding apprentices)

D.1111 Direct remuneration and bonuses

It includes the values of any social contributions, income taxes, etc., payable by the employee even if they are
actually withheld by the employer and paid directly to social insurance schemes, tax authorities, etc. on behalf of the
employee. Included are direct remuneration and bonuses.

D.11111 Direct remuneration

This means remuneration in the form of regular cash payments paid regularly at each pay period during the year.
They should be gross amounts, before deduction of taxes and social security contributions payable by employees:

(a) basic wages and salaries;

(b) direct remuneration calculated on the basis of time worked, output or piecework and paid to employees for

hours worked;

(c) remuneration and additional payments for overtime, night work, working on Sundays and public holidays, and

shift work;

(d) bonuses and allowances paid regularly at each pay period,

including:

— workplace bonuses for noise, risk, difficult work, shift or continuous work, night work and working on

Sundays and public holidays,

— individual performance bonuses, bonuses for output, production, productivity, responsibility, diligence,

punctuality,

length of service, qualifications and special knowledge.

D.11112 Bonuses minus payments to employees saving schemes

All payments to employees which are not paid regularly at each pay period, including bonuses paid at fixed periods,
not paid regularly at each pay period, bonuses linked to individual or collective performance.

D.11121 Bonuses paid at fixed periods

Payments which are not paid regularly at each pay period and the amount and periodicity of which are laid down in
advance irrespective of results, the activity of the enterprise or individual or collective performance, for example 13th
or 14th month payments, holidays bonuses, etc.

D.1112 Payments to employees’ savings schemes

Sums paid into savings schemes for employees (company savings schemes, share-purchase schemes, etc.). Payments
made to set up a special fund for purchasing company shares or other financial assets for employees, even if they do
not have immediate access to such assets, must be reduced by the amount of any tax exemption which may apply to
them.

The distribution of shares, free of charge or the sale of shares at a reduced price to staff or to the special funds may
be regarded as expenditure only if the shares in question are purchased on the market. The cost to the enterprise is
determined by the difference between the purchase price and the selling or transfer price.

D.1113 Payments for days not worked

Remuneration paid for statutory, contractual or voluntarily granted leave and public holidays or other paid days not
worked.

D.1114 Wages and salaries in kind

This refers to all goods and services made available to employees through the enterprise or local unit including
company products, staff housing and company cars.

Reference ESA 95: 4.04, 4.05, 4.06 (code D.11)

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D.11141 Company products

They are supplied free of charge for private use or sold to staff below their cost to the enterprise. For example, food
and drink (excluding expenditure on canteens and meal vouchers), coal, gas, electricity, fuel oil, heating, footwear
and clothing (excluding working clothes), micro-computers, etc.

The net price to the enterprise should be entered, i.e. the cost of products supplied free of charge or the difference
between the cost and the price at which the products are sold to staff. Compensatory payments or benefits in kind
which are not taken up must also be entered.

D.11142 Staff housing

It refers to expenditure by the enterprise to assist employees with housing, including: expenditure on housing owned
by the enterprise (expenditure on the maintenance and administration of housing, and tax and insurance relating to
such housing) and reduced-interest loans for the construction or purchase of housing by staff (the difference between
the interest payment at market rates and at the rate granted) allowances and subsidies granted to employees in
connection with their housing, and installation, but excluding removal allowances.

D.11143 Company cars

Company cars, or the cost to the enterprise of company cars supplied to employees for their private use. It should
include the net running costs incurred by the enterprise (the annual cost of leasing and interest payments —
depreciation, insurance, maintenance and repairs and parking). It should not include the capital expenditure involved
in purchasing the vehicles, any income derived from their resale, or the proportion of the costs attributable to
work-related use.

Estimates should be calculated on information available in the enterprises, for example records of the fleet of vehicles
of this type, the assessment of the average cost per vehicle, and the estimate of the proportion attributable to the
private use of the vehicle by the employee.

D.11144 Other

It covers in particular that part of social expenditure covering indirect benefits which are chargeable to the employer:

(a) canteens and meal vouchers;

(b) cultural, sporting and leisure facilities and services;

(c) kindergartens and day nurseries;

(d) staff shops;

(e) transport costs for journeys between home and the usual place of work;

(f) payments into trade union funds and costs of works committees.

All such expenditure includes depreciation, small repairs and regular maintenance of dedicated buildings and
installations. Salaries and wages paid by the enterprise directly to canteen staff are not entered under this heading.

D.112 Wages and salaries of apprentices

See D.11.

D.12 Employers’ social contributions

An amount equal to the value of the social contributions incurred by employers in order to secure for their
employees the entitlement to social benefits. Employers’ social contributions may be either actual or imputed.

Reference ESA 95: 4.08 (code D.12)

D.121 Employers’ actual social contributions (excluding apprentices)

They consist of the payments made by employers for the benefit of their employees to insurers (social security funds
and private funded schemes). These payments cover statutory, conventional, contractual and voluntary contributions
in respect of insurance against social risks or needs.

Employers’ actual social contributions are recorded in the period during which the work is done.

Reference ESA 95: 4.09 (code D.121) and 4.12(b)

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D.1211 Statutory social security contributions

Contributions paid to social security institutions payable by the employer and made compulsory by law. The
amounts of such contributions must be entered net of any subsidies. They include:

(a) contributions to insurance schemes for retirement pension, sickness, maternity, and disability;

(b) statutory contributions to unemployment insurance schemes;

(c) statutory contributions to insurance schemes for occupational accidents and diseases;

(d) statutory contributions to family allowances schemes;

(e) all other statutory contributions not mentioned elsewhere.

D.1212 Collectively agreed, contractual and voluntary social security contributions payable by the employer

These are all contributions paid by the employer to social security schemes which are supplementary to those which
are compulsory by law. Account should be taken of any tax exemptions which may apply.

They include:

(a) supplementary pension schemes (insured plans, self-administered funds, book reserves or provisions, all other

expenditure intended to fund supplementary pension schemes);

(b) supplementary sickness insurance schemes;

(c) supplementary unemployment insurance schemes;

(d) all other non-compulsory supplementary social security schemes not mentioned elsewhere.

D.122 Employers (1) imputed social contributions (excluding apprentices)

The employers’ imputed social contributions represent the counterpart to unfunded social benefits (less eventual
employees’ social contributions) paid directly by employers to their employees or former employees and other
eligible persons without involving an insurance enterprise or autonomous pension fund, and without creating a
special fund or segregated reserve for the purpose. The fact that certain social benefits are paid directly by employers,
and not through the medium of social security funds or other insurers, in no way detracts from their character as
social welfare benefits.

Employers’
recorded in the period during which the work is done.

imputed social contributions representing the counterpart of compulsory direct social benefits are

Employers’ imputed social contributions representing the counterpart of voluntary direct social benefits are recorded
at the time these benefits are provided.

Reference ESA 95 : 4.10 (code D.122) and 4.12(c)

D.1221 Guaranteed remuneration in the event of sickness

The sums paid directly by the employer to employees to maintain remuneration in the event of sickness, maternity
or occupational accident to compensate for loss of earnings, minus any reimbursements paid by social security
institutions.

D.1222 Guaranteed remuneration in the event of short-time working

The sums paid directly by the employer to employees to maintain remuneration in the event of short-time working,
minus any reimbursements paid to the employer by social security institutions.

D.1223 Payments to employees leaving the enterprise

Sums actually paid to dismissed workers: severance pay and compensation in lieu of notice.

D.1224 Employers’

imputed social benefits for the employees

Such as:

— welfare services,

— occupational health services,

— study grants for employees and their families and all other employers’

imputed social contributions not

mentioned elsewhere.

(1) Employer’s imputed social contributions include an amount equal in value to the wages and salaries which employers temporarily
if that
industrial

injury, disability, redundancy, etc. of their employees,

continue to pay in the event of the sickness, maternity,
amount can be separated.

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D.123 Employers’ social contributions for apprentices

See D.121.

D.2 Vocational training costs paid by the employer

These include: expenditure on vocational training services and facilities, depreciation, small repairs and maintenance
of buildings and installations, excluding staff costs; expenditure on participation in courses; the fees of instructors
from outside the enterprise; expenditure on teaching aids and tools used for training; sums paid by the enterprise to
vocational training organisations, etc. Subsidies linked to vocational training should be deducted.

Reference ESA 95: Intermediate consumption

D.3 Other expenditure paid by the employer

This includes in particular:

(a) recruitment costs (these are the sums paid to recruitment agencies, expenditure on job advertisements in the
press, travel expenses paid to candidates called for interview, installation allowances paid to newly recruited staff,
etc. This does not include administration running costs (office expenses, staff wages, etc.);

(b) working clothes provided by the employer.

Reference ESA 95: Intermediate consumption

D.4 Taxes paid by the employer

These are all taxes based on the wages and salary bill or on employment. These are taxes considered as labour costs.

Reference ESA 95: 4.23(c) (code D.29)

D.5 Subsidies received by the employer

These are all amounts received in the form of subsidies of a general nature intended to refund part or all of the cost
of direct remuneration but not intended to cover social security or vocational training costs. It does not include
refunds paid to the employer by social security institutions or supplementary insurance funds.

Reference ESA 95: 4.37(a) (code D.39)

E.

INFORMATION ON UNITS

E.1 Number of local units in the universe

E.2 Number of local units in the sample

F.

PERSONS EMPLOYED BY TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES

This refers to work provided by other enterprises or temporary agencies. There must be no direct contractual
relationship between such staff and the enterprise for which they work.

F.1 Number of persons

F.2 Employment costs for temporary staff: sums paid by the employer to temporary agencies

F.3 The number of hours of temporary work paid for by the enterprise or local unit

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ANNEX III

TECHNICAL FORMAT FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS

There are three files to provide corresponding to the three tables:

— Table A contains national data (one record by economic activity)

— Table B contains national data by size classes (one record by economic activity X size classes)

— Table C contains regional data. One record by economic activity. The number of records depends on the number of

regions of the country (NUTS 1)

Identification of a record

The records are sorted by an identification sequence containing:

— the year of the survey,

— the type of table,

— the country or region code,

— the economic activity and

— the size class.

Flag

Each record contains a flag which characterises the economic activity in terms of confidentiality and availability. The
possible values are:

‘1'

if the economic activity is confidential;

‘2'

if the economic activity is not available;

‘3'

if the cell

is hidden in national publication to protect confidential values when aggregated levels are published;

‘ ' No remark.

Variables

The variables requested are defined in the Annex I to this Regulation.

Missing variables should be left blank.

The variables concerning number of employees, working time, number of statistical units are expressed in natural
numbers.

The variables relating to expenditure are in national currency.

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Structure of a record

Identification

Year of the survey

Type of table

Country or region

Economic activity

Size class

Flag

Variables

Each variable has a length of 18

. . .

Start

Length

Comment

A, B or C

See codes (1)

See codes in Appendix 1

See codes in Appendix 2

‘1', ‘2', ‘3', or ‘ '

See list in Annex I

1

5

6

11

15

23

24

42

60

. . .

4

1

5

4

8

1

18

18

18

. . .

Note: All codes from the ‘identification' section should be left aligned.

All values from the ‘variables' section should be right aligned.
(1) Following the NUTS classification in force at the time of the survey.

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APPENDIX 1

CODES FOR ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES (NACE REV. 1)

NACE Rev. 1

Title

Code

Section C
10
11

12
13
14

Section D
15
16
17
18
19

20

21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37

Section E
40
41

Section F

Section G

50

51
52

Mining and quarrying
Mining of coal and lignite; extraction of peat
Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas; service activities incidental to oil and
gas extraction excluding surveying
Mining of uranium and thorium ores
Mining of metal ores
Other mining and quarrying

Manufacturing
Manufacture of food products and beverages
Manufacture of tobacco products
Manufacture of textiles
Manufacture of wearing apparel; dressing and dyeing of fur
Tanning and dressing of leather; manufacture of luggage, handbags, saddlery, harness
and footwear
Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufac-
ture of articles of straw and plaiting materials
Manufacture of pulp, paper and paper products
Publishing, printing and reproduction of recorded media
Manufacture of coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel
Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products
Manufacture of basic metals
Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
Manufacture of machinery and equipment
Manufacture of office machinery and computers
Manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus
Manufacture of radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus
Manufacture of medical, precision and optical instruments, watches and clocks
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers
Manufacture of other transport equipment
Manufacture of furniture; manufacturing
Recycling

Electricity, gas and water supply
Electricity, gas, steam and hot water supply
Collection, purification and distribution of water

Construction

Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal
and household goods
Sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and motorycles; retail sale of auto-
motive fuel
Wholesale trade and commission trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles; repair of personal and house-
hold goods

Section H

Hotels and restaurants

Section I
60
61
62
63
64

Transport, storage and communication
Land transport; transport via pipelines
Water transport
Air transport
Supporting and auxiliary transport activities; activities of travel agencies
Post and telecommunications

RC
R10
R11

R12
R13
R14

RD
R15
R16
R17
R18
R19

R20

R21
R22
R23
R24
R25
R26
R27
R28
R29
R30
R31
R32
R33
R34
R35
R36
R37

RE
R40
41

RF

RG

R50

R51
R52

RH

RI
R60
R61
R62
R63
R64

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Title

Code

Section J
65
66
67

Section K
70
71

72
73
74

Section M

Section N

Section O
90
91
92
93

Financial intermediation
Financial intermediation, except insurance and pension funding
Insurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation

Real estate, renting and business activities
Real estate activities
Renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of personal and household
goods
Computer and related activities
Research and development
Other business activities

Education

Health and social work

Other community, social and personal service activities
Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities
Activities of membership organisations
Recreational, cultural and sporting activities
Other service activities

Aggregates
C-O
C-K
C + D + E + F
C + D + E
G + H + I
J + K
G-O
G-K

Industry and services, C-O
Industry and services, C-K
Industry including construction, C-F
Industry, C-E
Wholesale and retail trade, Horeca, transports and communications, G-I
Financial, real estate, renting and business activities, J-K
Services, G-O
Services, G-K

RJ
R65
R66
R67

RK
R70
R71

R72
R73
R74

RM

RN

RO
R90
R91
R92
R93

RC-O
RC-K
RC-F
RC-E
RG-I
RJ-K
RG-O
RG-K

APPENDIX 2

CODES FOR SIZE CLASSES

Code

E1-10 (1)

E10-49

E50-249

E250-499

E500-999

E 1 000

Size class

Less than 10 employees

Between 10 and 49 employees

Between 50 and 249 employees

Between 250 and 499 employees

Between 500 and 999 employees

1 000 employees and more

(1) Not applicable in the survey of 2000.