1. ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATIONS Advanced course Day 1 – second afternoon session National version of NACE Rev.2
Marie-Madeleine Fuger
INSEE – France
Gheorghe Constantinescu
INSSE -Romania
Bucarest, 12–15 November 2013

2. National versions of NACE Rev.2
Legal context
• Use of NACE Rev.2 is mandatory within the European Statistical System
(Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of 20 December 2006)
• National versions are allowed.
(Article 4 (1) from Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006)
AMENDAMENTS:
- only exact breakdowns of NACERev.2 classes are admitted;
- when no breakdowns, the same headings as the
corresponding NACE Rev.2 classes;
- Commission approval prior to national publication
(Article 4 (2 and 3) from Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006)

3. National versions of NACE Rev.2
Rules for national sub-classes
► The relative importance of concerned activities have to be taken
into account;
► Consistency of size of national sub-classes is needed – a certain
turnover and employment must be achieved;
In NAF, sub-classes were allowed when either:
Turnover > 2 billions € or Employment > persons
► Sub-classes allow good classifying of statistical units;
► Units belonging to the same sub-class are as similar as possible;
► CPA headings linked to a sub-class represent the main production
of units included in this sub-class.

4. National versions of NACE Rev.2
Building process
Step 1: Gathering the needs of the users;
Step 2: Checking relevance of requests;
Step 3: Proposal of national structure;
Step 4: Analysis and approval by organisation responsible for the
national activities classification;
Step 5: Proposal of explanatory notes and final approval by
organisation responsible for the national activities
classification;
Step 6: Checking of conformity to NACE Rev.2 by the Commission;
Step 7: Adoption of the national legislation.

5. National versions of NACE Rev.2
CANE Rev.2 - Romanian version of NACE Rev.2
Legal basis
▪ Government Decision No. 656/1997, regarding the Classification of
activities from national economy – CANE, published in the Official
Journal of Romania No. 301 /
It came into force on January 1st , 1998.
▪ CANE rev.1, the revised version of CANE, was approved by Order
No.601/2002 of NIS President, based on Government Decision No.656
/1997, published in the OJ of Romania No. 908/
It came into force on January 1st , 2003.
▪ Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification
of economic activities NACE Revision 2.

6. National versions of NACE Rev.2
Criteria applied in building process of CANE Rev.2
▪ National activities classification CANE Rev.2 ensured a 1:1 rapport
with the classification entities from NACE Rev.2;
▪ The significance and the content of the titles from NACE Rev.2
has been kept in national activities classifications CANE rev.2;
▪ The explanatory notes of CANE Rev.2 were built starting from the
NACE Rev.2 explanatory notes and sometimes extended.

7. National versions of NACE Rev.2
Actions in the building process of CANE Rev.2
▪ In the NSI Romania a Committee for the elaboration of
CANE Rev.2 has been created.
Steps: 2, 4, 5 and 7
▪ Two communication channels were opened:
INTRANET for NSI experts
INTERNET for “external” users of classifications
Step 1
NOTE : Were accepted only proposals regarding:
- the improvement of titles (headings) and explanatory notes
- the correction of mistakes

8. National versions of NACE Rev.2
Achievements
▪ Classification of Activities of National Economy - CANE Rev.2 was
approved by Order of the NIS President No 337/April 2007 and
published in the Official Journal of Romania No.293/
It came into force on January 1st, 2008.
▪ The book “CANE Revision 2 - Explanatory notes” was published
in October The book contains the conversion table
CANE Rev.1 - CANE Rev.2 with notes concerning the links between
classifications.
▪ CANE Rev.2 - structure - is available on the Romanian
classifications and nomenclatures server SENIN at the address:

9. National versions of NACE Rev.2
Thank you!