UN Provisional Central Product Classification, 1991.

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

Final draft of the Central Product Classification, Version 2

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

Status of the revision process of the Central Product Classification

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

(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

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.

Gradually, its concepts and definitions became outdated as compared with the Harmonized System and the Central Product Classification.

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

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.

The consultative process for the revision of the Central Product Classification was based on the same principles and mechanism as the revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities.

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the Central Product Classification were formulated in terms of relevance, comparability and continuity.

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 Commission will have before it the report of the Secretary General, providing information on recent developments, including the status of revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), the Central Product Classification (CPC), the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) and the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO).

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.

Research done for the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) was an important input as was the worldwide consultation in 2005.

Proposals for the Central Product Classification version 2.0 were to be finalized by the end of 2005 for submission to Statistical Commission.

The Technical Subgroup prepared a proposal for the work programme for the 2007 revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4, and the Central Product Classification, Version 2, in a multistage process.

The Technical Subgroup prepared a proposal for the programme of work for the 2007 revision, Central Product Classification, Version 2, in a multistage process.

The definition as embodied in the GATS and the classifications of services used by negotiators (i.e. the sectoral classification of GATS and the Central Product Classification) do not tally with current statistical practices in respect of trade in services.

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The first step resulted in the preparation of the Central Product Classification, Version 1.1, which was submitted and approved by the Statistical Commission in 2002.

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.

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.

The submission of the final structure for the proposed Central Product Classification, Version 2, to the present session of the Statistical Commission concludes a multi year programme that was undertaken in conjunction with the revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities.

The Technical Subgroup of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications was updated on the progress of the fourth revision of the SITC and the linkage between the Central Product Classification and the Standard International Trade Classification during its meeting in October 2005.

Within the commissions engaged on information matters were to be found groups working on essential periodicals, terminology, building regulations, classification systems, building models, product data and so forth.

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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.

The Statistical Commission mandated the beginning of the revision in 1999 following its review of the report entitled Evaluation of progress in the implementation of International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 3 and the Central Product Classification, Version 1.0 (E CN.3 1999 16).

3 For example, the European Classification (NACE), the North American Classification (NAICS) and the Australia New Zealand Classification (ANZSIC).

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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.

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.

These include the updated System of National Accounts, 1993 (1993 SNA, Rev.1) and the revised Balance of Payments Manual, both planned to be published in 2008, and the International Standard Industry Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Central Product Classification, to be revised in 2007.

The adoption of the FAO proposal for the Central Product Classification, supplemented by comments from countries, has helped in the revision of structures, and in the clarification of concepts and definitions.

The OECD Working Party on Indicators of the Information Society is reviewing the definitions of the ICT sector, as well as ICT goods and services products in the light of the revision of the International Standard Industry Classification of All Economic Activities, the Central Product Classification and the Harmonized System (2007).

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