Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community
Modified by
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 761/93 of 24 March 1993
Corrigendum, OJ No 159, 11. 7. 1995, p. 31 (761/93), 393R0761393R0761R(01), April 3, 1993
Commission Regulation (EC) No 29/2002of 19 December 2001amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, 302R0029, January 10, 2002
Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 29 September 2003adapting to Council Decision 1999/468/EC the provisions relating to committees which assist the Commission in the exercise of its implementing powers laid down in instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the EC Treaty, 303R1882, October 31, 2003
Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 20 December 2006establishing 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(Text with EEA relevance), 306R1893, December 30, 2006
Corrected by
Corrigendum, OJ No 159, 11. 7. 1995, p. 31 (761/93), 393R0761R(01), July 11, 1995
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90of 9 October 1990on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European CommunityTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100a thereof,Having regard to the proposal from the CommissionOJ No C 58, 8. 3. 1990, p. 25.,In cooperation with the European ParliamentOJ No C 175, 16. 7. 1990, p. 84, and Decision of 12 September 1990 (not yet published in the Official Journal).,Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social CommitteeOJ No C 182, 23. 7. 1990, p. 1.,Whereas, in order to function, the internal market requires statistical standards applicable to the collection, transmission and publication of national and Community statistics so that undertakings, financial institutions, governments and all other operators in the single market can be provided with reliable and comparable statistical data;Whereas such information is necessary to enable undertakings to assess their competitiveness, and useful to the Community institutions in preventing distortions of competition;Whereas only if the Member States use classifications of activities linked to the Community classification will it be possible to provide integrated information with the reliability, speed, flexibility and degree of detail required for the management of the internal market;Whereas provision should be made for the Member States to be able, in order to meet national requirements, to retain or to insert in their national classifications additional subdivisions based on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community;Whereas the international compatibility of economic statistics requires that the Member States and the Community institutions use classifications of economic activities which are directly linked to the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC);Whereas use of the classification of economic activities in the Community requires that the Commission be assisted by the Statistical Programme Committee set up by Decision 89/382/EEC, EuratomOJ No L 181, 28. 6. 1989, p. 47. on any issue relating to the application of this Regulation, in particular as regards interpretation of that classification, minor amendments thereto, the drafting and updating of explanatory notes and the establishment of guidelines for the classification of statistical units in accordance with the said classification;Whereas it is vital that the contents of the various categories of the classification of activities in the European Community be interpreted uniformly in all the Member States;Whereas the introduction of a new classification requires a transitional period,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: