Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 October 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 (Text with EEA relevance)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137of 10 October 2022amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2(Text with EEA relevance)THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to 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 domainsOJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1., and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,Whereas:(1)In order to function, the internal market requires statistical standards applicable to the collection, transmission and publication of national and Union statistics so that businesses, financial institutions, governments and all other operators in the internal market can have access to reliable and comparable statistical data. To this end, it is vital that the various categories for classifying activities in the Union be interpreted uniformly in all the Member States.(2)Reliable and comparable statistics are necessary to enable businesses to assess their competitiveness, and are useful to the Union institutions in preventing distortions of competition.(3)Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 established a common statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (hereinafter referred to as "NACE Rev. 2"), to meet the requirements of statistics at the time of its adoption, and for as long as it remained in line with the technological environment and the structure of the economy, as well as with the relevant international economic and social classifications.(4)Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 empowers the Commission to adopt delegated acts, amending Annex I, to take account of technological or economic developments or to align it with other economic and social classifications.(5)Since the entry into force of NACE Rev. 2 on 1 January 2008, globalisation and digitalisation have changed the way in which many economic activities provide goods and services. New activities have gained in importance while others have lost importance in the global economy. Rapid changes have also taken place in the information-technology environment. In addition, the increased awareness of the impact of the economy on the environment has created specialised activities to protect the environment.(6)The international comparability of economic statistics requires that the Member States and the Union institutions use classifications of economic activities that are directly linked to the International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC).(7)Following the adoption by the Statistical Commission of the United Nations of Revision 5 of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities ("ISIC Rev. 5"), the NACE classification should be adapted in order to maintain its comparability and consistency with the standards for classifying economic activities used at international level.(8)By taking new economic activities rendered possible by recent structural, scientific and technological developments into account, the NACE classification should more closely reflect the reality of current economic activities in the Union.(9)An up-to-date NACE classification is central to the Commission’s ongoing efforts to modernise the production of Union statistics. This up-to-date classification is expected to contribute, through more comparable and relevant data, to better economic governance at both Union and national level.(10)Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: