Taxonomies
A taxonomy is a controlled vocabulary in which all the terms belong to a single hierarchical structure and have parent/child or broader/narrower relationships to other terms. The structure is sometimes referred to as a ‘tree’. The addition of non-preferred terms/synonyms may or may not be part of a taxonomy.
The Activity Coding List is used in the Harmonised European Time Use Surveys (HETUS) to quantify how much time people spend on various activities, including paid work, household chores and family care, personal care, voluntary work, social life, travel and leisure. It is based on international practices and previous classifications of daily activities used in Europe. The initial coding system and index were tested and revised on the basis of time use pilot surveys in 18 countries. The final system was completed in 2000 and revised in 2008 and in 2018. The European activity coding list allows several groupings of activities depending on the purpose of the analysis.
Eurostat website: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/time-use-surveys/overview
The Classification of Business Functions (CBF 1.0) is intended for use in the production of business statistics, building on experiences from several recent surveys in Europe, Canada, the United States, and India. The primary use of business function statistics is to examine the details of international sourcing. However, it could also be applied to domestic sourcing. The CBF is applicable for both developed and developing countries to measure the impact of both domestic and international sourcing in their national economies.
CBF is created and maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
CReMA classifies resource management activities into seven main categories, and is complemented by the Classification of Environmental Protection Activities (CEPA) that classifies activities aimed at preventing, reducing and eliminating pollution or any other environmental degradation.
Eurostat website: Methodology - Environment - Eurostat (europa.eu)
CReMA 2008 is created and maintained by Eurostat and disseminated by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The Classification of institutional sectors (S) is one of the classifications used in the European System of Accounts (hereinafter referred to as `the ESA 2010' or `the ESA'), an internationally compatible accounting framework for a systematic and detailed description of a total economy (that is, a region, country or group of countries), its components and its relations with other total economies.
ESA 2010 S is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The Combined Nomenclature 2017 (CN 2017) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.
Legal basis http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/1925/oj: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1925 of 12 October 2017 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 282, 31.10.2017, p. 1–958
Explanatory notes https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2015.076.01.0001.01.ENG to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1 -388
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/methodology/classifications)
The Combined Nomenclature 2018 (CN 2018) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.
Legal basis http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/1925/oj: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1925 of 12 October 2017 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 282, 31.10.2017, p. 1–958
Explanatory notes https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2015.076.01.0001.01.ENG to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1 -388
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/methodology/classifications)
The Combined Nomenclature 2019 (CN 2019) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1602 of 11 October 2018 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 273, 31.10.2018, p. 1 -960
Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1 -388
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications
The Combined Nomenclature 2020 (CN 2020) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1776 of 9 October 2019 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 280, 31.10.2019, p. 1 -1042
Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications
The Combined Nomenclature 2021 (CN 2021) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2017) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2159 of 16 December 2020 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, C/2020/9382, OJ L 431, 21.12.2020, p. 34 -37. http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/2159/oj
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1577 of 21 September 2020 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 361, 30.10.2020, p. 1 -1063. http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/1577/oj
Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications
The Combined Nomenclature 2022 (CN 2022) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2022) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties. CN 2022 is made-up of two concept schemes: CN 2022 and HS 2022, which indicates the classification items belonging to the reference classification (HS 2022).
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 of 12 October 2021 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 385, 29.10.2021, p. 1 -1091
Corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 of 12 October 2021 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (Official Journal of the European Union L 385 of 29 October 2021), OJ L 414, 19.11.2021, p. 1 -1091
Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications
The Combined Nomenclature 2023 (CN 2023) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonized System (HS 2022) which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.
Legal basis http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1998/oj : Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1998 of 20 September 2022 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 282, 31.10.2022, p. 1–1093
Explanatory notes https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2019.119.01.0001.01.ENG to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1 -422
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/methodology/classifications)
The Combined Nomenclature 2024 (CN 2024) is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics. It is also used by Directorate General "Taxation and Customs Union" of the European Commission for customs duty purposes. The classification is based on the world standard Harmonised System which it sub-divides where necessary for purposes of external trade, agricultural regulation and customs duties.
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2364 of 26 September 2023 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
OJ L, 2023/2364, 31.10.2023.
Explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1-422.
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: methodology
The Combined Nomenclature, 2024, is maintained by Eurostat and disseminated by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
To support an effective Single Market, the Commission encourages suppliers and contracting authorities/entities to adopt best practice and use electronic communication and information technology to provide all the relevant information, so as to ensure best value for money in public procurement.
To make public procurement more transparent and efficient, in 1993 the Commission drafted the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV).
To support an effective Single Market, the Commission encourages suppliers and contracting authorities/entities to adopt best practice and use electronic communication and information technology to provide all the relevant information, so as to ensure best value for money in public procurement.
To make public procurement more transparent and efficient, in 1993 the Commission drafted the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV).
The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens standard list identifies the key components of digital competence in 5 broader, and a total of 21 narrower areas, with eight proficiency levels for each concept and a few contextualising examples of use. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
EDCC Taxonomy contains the terms that are used to classify citizens' requests to the Europe Direct Contact Centre (EDCC).
EDCC Taxonomy is maintained by the Directorate-General for Communication of the European Commission and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
European business statistics (EBS) cover the structure, economic activities and performance of businesses, their research and development as well as innovation activities, their information and communication technologies (ICT) usage and e-commerce, and global value chains. They also comprise statistics on the production of manufactured goods and services and the international trade in goods and services as well as essential statistical infrastructure such as national statistical business registers and the EuroGroups register. EBS provide users and key policymakers with much needed information for decision-making or for analytical purposes. European business statistics (EBS) manuals seeks to serve statistical experts and users alike as a comprehensive reference to the world of EBS by providing an overview of business statistics while highlighting the features introduced by the new regulatory framework. Furthermore, the manual describes the various statistical tools and activities supporting EBS production such as statistical units and profiling, classifications, data processing or statistical disclosure control.
ECOICOP (European Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose) is based on COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose), a reference classification published by the United Nations Statistics Division, which is used in National accounts, Household Budget surveys (HBS), Price Statistics (HICP) and Purchasing Power Parities (PPP). Parts of this classification are also used in Food safety statistics or environment statistics.
ECOICOP is consistent with the UN version at four digits, harmonized and developed by Eurostat at 5-digit levels. The objectives are to lay down a framework of homogeneous categories of goods and services, which are considered as a function or purpose of expenditure by households with the object of classifying transactions in relation to individual consumption, social transfers and households' real consumption.
Legal basis: Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on harmonised indices of consumer prices and the house price index, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95, OJ L 135, 24.5.2016, p. 11 -38.
ECOICOP is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The European Commission web presence classes is a taxonomy owned and used by DG COMM. The European Commission's web presence - ec.europa.eu - is built around 15 classes. These classes are structured around user tasks. The European Commission web presence classes is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website for DG COMM.
The European List of Wastes (LoW) is the waste classification in the EU for administrative purposes, i.e. for permitting and supervision in the field of waste generation and management. The LoW defines 842 waste types which are structured into 20 chapters and 111 sub-chapters, mainly according to the source of the waste (i.e. the economic sector or process of origin). Each waste type is characterised by a six-digit code. Any waste marked with an asterisk (*) in the list of wastes shall be considered as hazardous waste pursuant to Directive 2008/98/EC. Countries which use the European List of Waste (LoW) for collecting data on waste generation and treatment can use the table of equivalence that has been established between the LoW and the EWC in order to convert their statistics in EWC categories. This transposition table is also useful for countries using the EWC-Stat for their compilation of waste statistics as it provides useful information on the composition of the waste categories listed in EWC-Stat.
Legal basis:2014/955/EU: Commission Decision of 18 December 2014 amending Decision 2000/532/EC on the list of waste pursuant to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 370, 30.12.2014, p. 44 -86.
LoW 2015 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
European Science Vocabulary (EuroSciVoc) is the taxonomy of fields of science based on OECD's 2015 Frascati Manual taxonomy. It was extended with fields of science categories extracted from CORDIS content through a semi-automatic process developed with Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.
ESeG is a derived classification from ISCO-08, which allows the grouping of individuals with similar economic, social and cultural characteristics throughout the European Union, based only on core social variables to ensure comfortable use in all social surveys providing comparable results.
ESeG 2016 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
Geonomenclature 2021 (GEONOM 2021) or the nomenclature of countries and territories for the external trade statistics of the Union and statistics of trade between Member States is used by the EU Member States to collect detailed statistics on their exchanges of goods with other Member States (intra-EU trade) or with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade).
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1470 of 12 October 2020 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics, C/2020/6906, OJ L 334, 13.10.2020, p. 2 -21.
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications
Documentation
European Commission, Eurostat, Geonomenclature applicable to European statistics on international trade in goods : 2020 edition, Publications Office, 2020, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/177125
European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics geonomenclature applicable to European statistics on international trade in goods : 2022 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/245222
Geonomenclature 2021 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
Geonomenclature 2022 (GEONOM 2022) is used by the EU Member States to collect detailed statistics on their exchanges of goods with other Member States (intra-EU trade) or with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade). GEONOM 2022 is also used by Eurostat to disseminate data through Comext, Eurostat's reference database for international trade in goods.
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1470 of 12 October 2020 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 334, 13.10.2020, p. 2 -21.
GEONOM 2022 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
Geonomenclature 2023 (GEONOM 2023) is used by the EU Member States to collect detailed statistics on their exchanges of goods with other Member States (intra-EU trade) or with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade). GEONOM 2023 is also used by Eurostat to disseminate data through Comext, Eurostat's reference database for international trade in goods.
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1470 of 12 October 2020 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 334, 13.10.2020, p. 2 -21.
GEONOM 2023 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
Geonomenclature 2024 (GEONOM 2024) is used by the EU Member States to collect detailed statistics on their exchanges of goods with other Member States (intra-EU trade) or with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade). GEONOM 2024 is also used by Eurostat to disseminate data through Comext, Eurostat's reference database for international trade in goods.
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1470 of 12 October 2020 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 334, 13.10.2020, p. 2 -21.
GEONOM 2024 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
List of thematic categories of high-value datasets, as set out in Annex I of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information.The concepts listed in this concept scheme are representations of the data categories as set out in Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/138/oj. It is not recommended to use these data categories outside the context of legislation on the re-use of public sector information.
High-value dataset categories is maintained by Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies.
The Eurostat classification ICST-COM which is harmonised with the UNCTAD International Classification of Ship Types, identifies all the ship types. The classification is applicable both to sea-going and to inland waterway craft. The groupings are based according to the construction of the ship or non-ship marine structure, rather than its particular use at a point in time.
Legal basis: Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (Recast) (Text with EEA relevance).
ICST-COM is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) is a framework for assembling, compiling and analysing cross-nationally comparable statistics on education. ISCED Fields of Education and Training classifies education programmes and related qualifications by fields of study: A field is the `broad domain, branch or area of content covered by an education programme or qualification'. The International Standard Classification of Education is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
Land Use / Cover Area Frame Survey 2022 (LUCAS 2022) consist of an area frame sampling survey to collect harmonized data on land cover/use and agro-environmental parameter; the survey covers all Member States. LUCAS contains the classifications for land cover (LC), land use (LU), forest types, linear and water features.
Eurostat website: Information on LUCAS 2022
Documentation
LUCAS 2022 (Land Use / Cover Area Frame Survey) Technical reference document C3 Classification (Land cover & Land Use)
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/205002/13686460/C3-LUCAS-2022.pdf
LUCAS 2022 is maintained by Eurostat and published the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The nomenclature for the analysis and comparison of scientific programmes and budgets (NABS) is a functional classification for the analysis of public financing of research and development (R&D) on the basis of the socio-economic objectives pursued by the central governments or stated by them in drafting their budgets and programmes, as opposed to a breakdown by institutions or groups of institutions to which funds are allocated. It is mainly used for GBAORD (Government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D) and R&D statistics at international and national level. The NABS nomenclature was originally established in 1969 and earlier revisions were carried out in 1975, 1983, 1992 and recently in 2007.
NABS 2007 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The NUTS classification (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) is a hierarchical system for dividing up the economic territory of the EU and the UK. The NUTS 2024 compiles the versions 2010, 2013, 2016, 2021 and 2024 of the NUTS classification as well as the Statistical Regions for countries that do not belong to the EU such as candidate countries, potential candidates or countries belonging to the EFTA (European Free Trade Association).
Eurostat website:
NUTS - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - Background
NUTS - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - History of NUTS
Statistical regions for EU Candidates and EFTA countries
NUTS 2024 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
PRODCOM List 2019-2020 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).
Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1933 of 6 November 2019 establishing the ‘Prodcom list’ of industrial products referred to in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91, OJ L 309, 29.11.2019, p. 1–263
Eurostat website: PRODCOM – Overview
PRODCOM List 2021 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).
Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1933 of 6 November 2019 establishing the `Prodcom list' of industrial products referred to in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91, OJ L 309, 29.11.2019, p. 1 -263.
Eurostat website: PRODCOM - Overview
Documentation
European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics methodological manual for PRODCOM : 2021 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/812273
European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics user's manual for PRODCOM : 2021 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/473101
PRODCOM List 2021 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
PRODCOM List 2022 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 of 12 December 2022 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the coverage of the product classification, OJ L 336, 29.12.2022, p. 1 -221.
Eurostat website: PRODCOM - Overview
Documentation
European Commission, Eurostat, European business statistics user's manual for PRODCOM : 2022 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2023, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/39767
PRODCOM List 2022 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
PRODCOM List 2023 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 of 12 December 2022 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the coverage of the product classification (Text with EEA relevance), C/2022/8915, OJ L 336, 29.12.2022, p. 1-221.
PRODCOM List 2023 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
PRODCOM List 2024 is a classification of industrial products derived from activities listed in sections B, C and E in the NACE Rev. 2. Most eight-digit PRODCOM codes have a complete reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN).
Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 of 12 December 2022 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the coverage of the product classification (Text with EEA relevance), C/2022/8915, OJ L 336, 29.12.2022, p. 1-221.
PRODCOM List 2024 is maintained by Eurostat and disseminated by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The European Learning Model (ELM) list of Qualification information topics is a standard list of additional information topics that can be provided about a qualification, an agent or an accreditation. It is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
Qualifications frameworks classify qualifications by level, based on learning outcomes. This classification reflects the content and profile of qualifications - that is, what the holder of a certificate or diploma is expected to know, understand, and be able to do. The development of national qualifications frameworks in Europe also reflects the Bologna process and the agreement to implement qualifications frameworks in the European higher education area (QF-EHEA) that are comparable and easier to understand. Qualifications Framework is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The SDMX Glossary is an SDMX guideline containing concepts and related definitions that are useful for building and understanding data and metadata exchange arrangements based on the SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) ISO 17369 standard. It is recommended as a single entry point to a common SDMX terminology to be used in order to facilitate communication and understanding of the standard. In short, the overall message of the glossary is the following: if a term is used, then its precise meaning should correspond to the SDMX Glossary definition, and any reference to a particular phenomenon described in the SDMX Glossary should use the appropriate term.
Standard goods classification for transport statistics 2007 (NST 2007) is a statistical nomenclature for the goods transported by four modes of transport: road, rail, inland waterways and sea, that takes account of the economic activity from which the goods originate. This means that each of its items is strongly interrelated with an item of the European Union Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) and statistical classification of economic activities (NACE).
Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1304/2007 of 7 November 2007 amending Council Directive 95/64/EC, Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, Regulations (EC) No 91/2003 and (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to the establishment of NST 2007 as the unique classification for transported goods in certain transport modes, OJ L 290, 8.11.2007, p. 14 -16.
Eurostat website: International trade in goods methodology: classifications
NST 2007 is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
NACE Rev. 2 (Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community) is the classification of economic activities in the European Union (EU). It is the European version of ISIC (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities), Rev. 4, which is a global classification of economic activities maintained by the United Nations.
Legal basis: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 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains, OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1 -39.
Eurostat website:NACE Rev. 2 - Overview
NACE Rev. 2 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The NACE classification of economic activities in the European Community is used for a wide variety of European statistics in the economic, social, environmental, and agricultural domains.
Since the last version of NACE Rev. 2 was published in 2006, the EU economy has evolved tremendously, leading to a need to update this classification. For the past few years, Eurostat has worked with its partners in the European Statistical System on this update, which has now entered into force. From 2025 onwards, European statistics will start being produced based on NACE Rev. 2.1.
Legal basis: Commision Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 December 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, OJ L 19, 20.12.2023, p. 5 -42.
NACE Rev. 2.1 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
CPA 2.1 is the European version of the CPC 2.1 (Central Product Classifications of the United Nations) and with a structure based on NACE 2 according to the criterion of economic origin (and thus the definition of the economic activities).
Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1209/2014 of 29 October 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 Text with EEA relevance, OJ L 336, 22.11.2014, p. 1 -149.
CPA 2.1 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
CPA is the European version of the CPC (Central Product Classifications of the United Nations) and with a structure based on NACE 2 according to the criterion of economic origin (and thus the definition of the economic activities).
Legal basis: Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 65 -226.
CPA 2008 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The European Waste Classification is a mainly substance-oriented classification of waste for statistical purposes, which distinguishes hazardous and non-hazardous waste. It is aggregated into 51 mainly substance orientated waste categories that provides criteria for the assessment and classification of hazardous waste and defines different types of waste by a six-digit code for the waste and the respective two-digit and four-digit chapter headings. The two digit chapter headings are partly oriented towards the origin of the waste. The EWC stat is orientated purely to material disaggregation into parts of this material.
Legal basis: Commission Regulation (EU) No 849/2010 of 27 September 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 253, 28.9.2010, p. 2 -41.
EWC-Stat Rev. 4 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
The 17 interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their related 169 targets, which are at the heart of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, provide a new policy framework worldwide towards ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities and tackling climate (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). The SDGs, set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and intended to be achieved by the year 2030, are part of a UN Resolution called the "2030 Agenda". The EU has committed to implement the Sustainable Development Goals both in its internal and external policies.
The UN developed a system of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) for Sustainable Development Goals, Targets, Indicators and related statistical series to support the development of a United Nations system-wide ecosystem of machine-readable data and documents based on Linked Open Data (LOD) principles. The taxonomy is available to IT developers and the public at large under http://metadata.un.org/sdg/?lang=en.
The territorial typologies that have been developed by Eurostat can be split into three principal groups, covering grid-based typologies, local typologies based on LAUs (local administrative units) and regional typologies based on NUTS level 3 (the classification of territorial units for statistics).
- Grid typologies: Eurostat collects population statistics based on 1 km² grid cells. These very detailed statistics are used to establish various cluster types — namely, urban centres, urban clusters and rural grid cells.
- Local typologies: based on statistics for local administrative units (LAUs) which generally comprise municipalities or communes across the EU. Statistics for LAUs may be used to establish local typologies including the degree of urbanisation (cities; towns and suburbs; rural areas); functional urban areas (cities and their surrounding commuting zones); coastal areas (coastal and non-coastal areas).
- Regional typologies: statistics that are grouped according to the classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS); they provide information at a relatively aggregated level of detail, with data presented for NUTS level 1, level 2 and level 3 regions respectively, detailing larger to smaller territorial units. Only the most detailed statistics at NUTS level 3 are used as building blocks to establish the urban-rural typology (predominantly urban regions, intermediate regions and predominantly rural regions), the metropolitan typology (metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions), the coastal typology (coastal and non-coastal regions), each of which has a legislative basis.
Eurostat website: TERCET – TERRITORIAL TYPOLOGIES
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