Commission Regulation (EC) No 973/2007 of 20 August 2007 amending certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains implementing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2
Date: 2007-08-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, economic activity, national statistics, statistical method, statistical nomenclature

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 973/2007

of 20 August 2007

amending certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains implementing the statistical
classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of
European Parliament and of
the Council of 20 December
2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic
activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation
(EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific
statistical domains (1), and in particular Article 6(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

The establishment of an up-to-date classification system
to the Commission’s ongoing efforts
is central
to
in
modernise the production of Community statistics,
order to truly reflect economic reality by taking into
account
structural
changes in the economy.

developments

technological

and

Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 established for
this
purpose a revised statistical classification of economic
activities, called NACE Revision 2 (hereinafter referred
to as NACE Rev. 2).

By virtue of Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006,
the Commission is required to adopt the necessary imple-
menting measures for implementing this Regulation in
relation to the use of NACE Rev. 2 in various statistical
domains.

(5)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

by

goods

statistics as regards the definition and transmission of
information on labour costs (2); Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1916/2000 of 8 September 2000 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 structure of earnings (3); Commission Regulation
(EC) No 2163/2001 of 7 November 2001 concerning
the technical arrangements for data transmission for
road (4);
statistics on the
carriage of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1216/2003 of 7 July
2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 450/2003 of
the European Parliament and of the Council concerning
the labour cost index (5); Commission Regulation (EC) No
1983/2003 of 7 November 2003 implementing Regu-
lation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament
and of the Council concerning Community statistics on
income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the list
of target primary variables (6); Commission Regulation
(EC) No 753/2004 of 22 April 2004 implementing
Decision No 1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council as regards statistics on science and
technology (7);
(EC) No
912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council
Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of
industrial production (8);
a Community
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 of 13
August
No
implementing
1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament and Council
concerning
of
Community statistics on innovation (9); Commission
Regulation (EC) No 430/2005 of 15 March 2005 imple-
menting Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the
organisation of a labour force sample survey in the
Community concerning the codification to be used for
data transmission from 2006 onwards and the use of a
the collection of data on structural
sub-sample for
variables (10);
No
Regulation
Commission
782/2005 of 24 May 2005 setting out the format for
the transmission of results on waste statistics (11).

development

Commission

production

survey of

Regulation

Decision

2004

(EC)

and

the

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Statistical
Programme Committee, established by Council Decision
89/382/EEC, Euratom (12),

opinion

the

the

of

The establishment of a revised statistical classification of
economic activities makes it necessary to modify speci-
fically certain references to NACE Rev. 1 or NACE Rev.
1,1, as well as
relevant
is therefore necessary to amend the
instruments.
following instruments: Commission Regulation (EC) No
1726/1999 of 27 July 1999 implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural

to amend a number of

It

(1) OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 203, 3.8.1999, p. 28. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1737/2005 (OJ L 279, 22.10.2005, p. 11).

(3) OJ L 229, 9.9.2000, p. 3. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1738/2005 (OJ L 279, 22.10.2005, p. 32).

(4) OJ L 291, 8.11.2001, p. 13.
(5) OJ L 169, 8.7.2003, p. 37. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 224/2007 (OJ L 64, 2.3.2007, p. 23).

(6) OJ L 298, 17.11.2003, p. 34.
(7) OJ L 118, 23.4.2004, p. 23.
(8) OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 71.
(9) OJ L 267, 14.8.2004, p. 32.
(10) OJ L 71, 17.3.2005, p. 36.
(11) OJ L 131, 25.5.2005, p. 26.
(12) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 7

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 912/2004 is hereby amended as follows:

Regulation (EC) No 1726/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:

1. after Article 2, the following Article 2(a) is added:

‘Article 1

‘Article 2a

Transitional measures for the implementation of NACE
Rev. 2

Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat)
labour cost survey results referring to the calendar year 2008
according to both NACE Rev. 2 and NACE Rev. 1,1, where
the latter is compulsory only for Table A and only at the
NACE Rev. 1,1 section level.’;

2. Annex II and Annex III are amended in accordance with

Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 2

Annex I and Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000 are
amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

The field covered by the survey referred to in Article 1 of
Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be identified by reference
to the survey population and the observation unit.

The survey population of the reference period shall be enter-
prises whose principal activity or one of
its secondary
activities is listed in sections B or C of the classification of
economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev.
2),
the
European Parliament and of the Council (*).

in Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of

set out

The observation unit shall be the enterprise as defined in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical
units for the observation and analysis of the production
system in the Community. Member States may collect data
using another statistical unit as observation unit as long as
they transmit enterprise data to Eurostat.

Article 3

___________
(*) OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1.’

In Regulation (EC) No 2163/2001 the term ‘NACE Revision 1’
is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ in the Annex.

2. Article 3 is replaced by the following:

Article 4

‘Article 3

Regulation (EC) No 1216/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

1.

‘NACE Rev. 1’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ throughout the
text and the Annexes;

2.

‘Sections L, M, N and O’ are replaced by ‘Sections O to S’ in
Article 4 and in Annex IV;

The obligation of Member States to adopt survey methods
designed to facilitate the collection of data from units repre-
senting at least 90 % of national production per NACE class
referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is
to be implemented as Member States’ adoption of survey
methods designed to enable the collection of data, repre-
least 90 % of national production for each
senting at
NACE Rev. 2 class of sections B and C.’

3.

‘Sections C to K’ are replaced by ‘Sections B to N’
Annex IV.

in

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 is amended in
accordance with Annex IV to this Regulation.

Article 8

Article 5

In Regulation (EC) No 1983/2003, ‘NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced
by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ and ‘Rev. 1,1’
in
footnote 22 of the Annex.

is replaced by ‘Rev. 2’

Article 9

In Regulation (EC) No 430/2005 ‘NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by
‘NACE Rev. 2’ throughout Annexe 2.

Article 6

Article 10

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 753/2004 is amended in
accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 782/2005 is amended in
accordance with Annex V to this Regulation.

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Article 11

Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2008, except Article 4 which shall apply from 1 January 2009.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 August 2007.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Annexes II and III to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1726/1999, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1737/2005, are
amended as follows:

1.

‘NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ throughout the text;

2.

‘Sections C-K and M-O of NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by ‘Sections B-N and P-S of NACE Rev. 2’;

3.

‘Section L of NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by ‘Section O of NACE Rev. 2’;

4.

‘NACE Rev. 1,1, 74,50’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2, 78,20’ throughout the text.

ANNEX II

Annex I and Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1738/2005, are amended as
follows:

1.

‘NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ throughout the text;

2.

in Annex II, ‘Sections C to K and M to O’ is replaced by ‘Sections B to N and P to S’ throughout the text;

3.

in Annex II, ‘Section L’ is replaced by ‘Section O’ throughout the text;

4.

in Annex II, ‘NACE Rev. 1,1, 74.50’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2, 78.20’.

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ANNEX III

Section 1 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 753/2004 is amended as follows:

1.

‘NACE’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ throughout the text.

2. Paragraph 5.11 shall be replaced by the following:

‘The results of the statistics by economic activity (NACE Rev. 2) are to be broken down into the following NACE Rev.
2 divisions, groups, classes and aggregates:

“01, 02, 03”, “05, 06, 07, 08, 09”, “10 to 33”, “10, 11, 12”, “10, 11”, “12”, “13, 14, 15”, “13”, “14”, “15”, “16, 17, 18”,
“16”, “17”, “18”, “19”, “20”, “21”, “22”, “23”, “24”, “25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30”, “25”, “25,40”, “26”, “26,1”, “26,2”, “26,3”,
“26,4”, “26,5”, “26,6”, “26,7”, “27”, “28”, “29”, “30”, “30,1”, “30,2”, “30,3”, “30,4”, “31”, “32”, “32,50”, “33”, “35, 36”,
“37, 38, 39”, “41, 42, 43”, “45, 46, 47”, “49, 50, 51, 52, 53”, “55, 56”, “58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63”, “61”, “62”, “63”, “64,
65, 66”, “68”, “69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75”, “72”, “77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82”, “84, 85”, “86”, “87, 88”, “90, 91, 92, 93”,
“94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99”, “01 to 99”.’

ANNEX IV

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 is amended as follows:

1. Section 2 is replaced by the following:

‘As a minimum, enterprises in the NACE Rev. 2 sections B, C, D, E, H, K and in the NACE Rev. 2 divisions 46, 58, 61,
62, 63 and 71 are to be covered.’;

2. Section 5 paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘All results are to be broken down by economic activity (NACE Rev. 2) at section level and by the following
employment size classes: 10–49 employees, 50–249 employees, above 249 employees.’;

3. Section 5 paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘All results are to be broken down by economic activity (NACE Rev. 2) at division level.’

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ANNEX V

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 782/2005 setting out the format for the transmission of results on waste statistics is
amended as follows:

List C shall be replaced by the following:

‘List C — Activity item

Item
No

NACE Rev. 2 Code

Description

1

Division 01

Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

2

3

4

Division 02

Division 03

Section B

Division 10

Division 11

Division 12

Forestry and logging

Fishing and aquaculture

Mining and quarrying

Manufacture of food products

Manufacture of beverages

Manufacture of tobacco products

5

Division 13

Manufacture of textiles

6

7

8

9

Division 14

Division 15

Division 16

Division 17

Division 18

Division 19

Division 20

Division 21

Division 22

Manufacture of wearing apparel

Manufacture of leather and related products

Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture;
manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials

Manufacture of paper and paper products

Printing and reproduction of recorded media

Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products

Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products

Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products
preparations

and pharmaceutical

Manufacture of rubber and plastic products

10

Division 23

Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products

11

Division 24

Division 25

Manufacture of basic metals

Manufacture of
equipment

fabricated metal products,

except machinery

and

12

Division 26

Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Division 27

Division 28

Division 29

Division 30

Manufacture of electrical equipment

Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.

Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers

Manufacture of other transport equipment

13

Division 31

Manufacture of furniture

Division 32

Division 33

Other manufacturing

Repair and installation of machinery and equipment

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Item
No

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

NACE Rev. 2 Code

Description

Section D

Division 36

Division 37

Division 39

Division 38

Section F

Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

Water collection, treatment and supply

Sewerage

Remediation activities and other waste management services

Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery

Construction

Service activities:

Section G, except 46,77

Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Section H

Section I

Section J

Section K

Section L

Section M

Section N

Section O

Section P

Section Q

Section R

Section S

Section T

Section U

Transportation and storage

Accommodation and food service activities

Information and communication

Financial and insurance activities

Real estate activities

Professional, scientific and technical activities

Administrative and support service activities

Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Education

Human health and social work activities

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Other service activities

Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and
services-producing activities of households for own use

Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies

Class 46,77

Wholesale of waste and scrap

Waste generated by households
(This is not a NACE category)

TA

Total

Total’