Statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2

The European Parliament adopted the resolution drafted by Guntars KRASTS (UEN, LV) and made several mainly technical and drafting amendments to the proposal. (Please see the summary of 12/07/2006.) Parliament added that it was necessary to follow the regulatory procedure with scrutiny as regards measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of the Regulation, inter alia by deleting some of those elements, or by supplementing the Regulation by the addition of new non-essential elements. Accordingly, the following measures will be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny): amendments to NACE Rev. 2 designed to:

- take account of technological or economic developments; and

- align it with other economic and social classification.