---
id: "eu_nace"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["industry"]
country: ["EU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 95
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eu_nace"
---

# NACE code (EU classification of economic activities) (`eu_nace`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Code of NACE, the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community and the EU version of the UN ISIC classification. A section is a single letter; divisions, groups and classes have two to four digits, usually written with a dot after the second digit. Revision 2.1 replaced revision 2 from 2025 and changed some codes.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Industry (industry)
- Countries: European Union (EU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[A-U]|\d{2}(?:\.\d{1,2})?)$
```

## Examples

- `62.10` — Class (NACE Rev. 2.1): computer programming activities
- `01.11` — Class: growing of cereals, other than rice, leguminous crops and oil seeds
- `01.1` — Group: growing of non-perennial crops
- `A` — Section: agriculture, forestry and fishing
- `62.107` (invalid example) — One character too many

## Mappings

- stdnum: `eu.nace`
- wikidata: `P4496`

## Supported by tools

- `dataprep`
- `pythonstdnum`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_Classification_of_Economic_Activities_in_the_European_Community>
- other: <https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.eu.nace.html>
- other: <https://docs.dataprep.ai/user_guide/clean/clean_eu_nace.html>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4496>

## Quality

Score 95/100. Missing: translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eu_nace.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/EU/industry/eu_nace.yaml>