Revise the activity (European Classification, Rev.1.1) and product classifications (Classification of Products by Activity) in accordance with changes in the International Standard Industry Classification of All Economic Activities and the Central Product Classification

They offered the opportunity to provide updated information on CPC changes to countries and to seek feedback from countries on their experiences with the CPC or other product classifications.

Questions on the scope of the CPC, in particular a better understanding of the boundary between the product classification and an asset classification, have been resolved in cooperation with experts on National Accounts.

It also ensured the inclusion of necessary details for implementation in the CPC. Compared with CPC Version 1.1, about 200 new items have been added to CPC Version 2 in the areas of agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food.

It included questions on the purpose and scope of the CPC, as well as different options for the CPC aggregation structure.

The Commission is requested to review the draft and approve that structure as the recommended international product classification standard.

Since the CPC has been revised at shorter intervals than the ISIC, it was expected that the revision of the CPC would be much less extensive than the revision of the ISIC.

This joint presentation of ISIC and CPC issues should also foster the combined use of the ISIC and the CPC for statistical purposes.

Status of the revision process of the Central Product Classification

A simple comparison of the CPC and UNSPSC structures indicates that this type of relationship between the two classifications does not exist.

Agriculture in the Central Product Classification, the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities and the International Standard Classification of Occupations

Final draft of the Central Product Classification, Version 2

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UN Provisional Central Product Classification, 1991.

(c) Noted that the deadlines in the revision processes of the International Standard Industrial Classification and the Central Product Classification (CPC) were highly important for the revision processes of other classifications and urged that efforts be undertaken to also keep the revision of the Central Product Classification on schedule

The planned user's guide for the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities will address Central Product Classification issues as well. This will be achieved through the discussion of classification principles and their interpretation and application in both classifications, recognizing that the CPC describes the outputs of the economic activities described in the ISIC.

Review of the link between the Central Product Classification and the United Nations Standard Product and Services Code

There is an uneven distribution of agricultural and fishing products.

The correspondence table between the Central Product Classification and the Extended Balance of Payments Statistics will be revised in line with the revisions and clarifications arising from the revision of the System of National Accounts, the Balance of Payments Manual and the Central Product Classification revision.

In that regard, the Classification of Products by Activities (CPA), the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS), the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS Harmonized System), the Extended Balance of Payments Services Classification (EBOPS) and the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities have been considered for substantial parts of the revision process.

The revised structure of the CPC and the extended recognition of products better reflect the current production patterns and make the revised CPC a better tool for measuring outputs of economic activities in line with concepts in the SNA.

Product lines

The worldwide consultation for the Central Product Classification (using questionnaires) was initially combined with the ISIC revision, in which the first two questionnaires covered both ISIC and CPC issues.

In addition, the categories at the detailed level of the UNSPSC for services are often not identifiable in terms of the CPC owing to ambiguity in language or for other reasons.

Such a review should be undertaken for economic classifications including the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, the Central Product Classification, the Standard International Trade Classification, the Classification by Broad Economic Categories and the classifications of expenditure according to purpose.

Similar to the link between the ISIC and NACE, particular attention has been paid to maintain a strong correlation between the Central Product Classification and the Classification of Products by Activities at the most detailed level, although their aggregation structures differ.

Similarly, the activities for furthering the implementation of the Central Product Classification will be combined with the implementation efforts for the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities United Nations Statistics Division workshops will focus on the combined use of the ISIC and the CPC, as described above.

However, considering the UNSPSC detail as a list of products rather than as a structured classification, it seems more appropriate to compare it to the CPC index, which now covers more than 42,000 items, compared to 18,000 in the UNSPSC.

Most of the proposals had been reviewed in other forums, such as the Voorburg Group on Service Statistics, before being incorporated in the CPC draft and reviewed by countries in the full CPC context.

The Technical Subgroup supported the revision of the SITC in general and the improvement of the links between the CPC and the SITC to the extent possible, in particular.

The classification adopted in the GATS follows the UN CPC approach and identifies distribution services according to the type of service delivered, which corresponds to their position in the distribution chain.

Persistence of peak tariffs on sensitive products such as textiles, leather, footwear, fish and fish products

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Wire drawn products and seamless pipes are also part of the long steel products group.

The classification of crops, classification of livestock and classification of machinery and equipment recommended in the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010 are now fully compatible with the ISIC and the CPC.

At its meeting in June 2005, the Expert Group reviewed the process employed for the CPC revision and the detailed work that had been done to produce a first complete draft for the CPC, Version 2.

The inclusion of the FAO proposals for the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities and the Central Product Classification in their new versions, the ISIC, Revision 4, and CPC, Version 2, has effectively facilitated their application to the next World Programme for the Census of Agriculture.

(a) Does the Commission agree to recommend the above mentioned ISIC and CPC structures as the international standards for activity and product classifications and request countries to use these classifications as models for their national classifications to produce internationally comparable statistics?

It's very similar to what you do when you design your product.

The structure of the final draft of the CPC, Version 2, is available to the Statistical Commission as a background document.

And it came up with 6,000 different species of products.

Companies that distribute any kind of property (including cash, real estate, and goods) or services, or give discounts for the acquisition of such property or services by means of lotteries or similar methods

In the past, the Central Product Classification was not fully applicable to agricultural statistics mainly because the structure and detail of the Harmonized System, the basis of the CPC, were not directly suitable for the purpose of agricultural statistics.

Gradually, its concepts and definitions became outdated as compared with the Harmonized System and the Central Product Classification.

A comparison of the detail provided in the UNSPC and CPC makes the UNSPSC appear much more detailed.