What are the new intermediation classes in retail and accommodation?

Four new intermediation classes were created for retail, accommodation and food services in NACE Rev. 2.1: class 47.91 and class 47.92 for retail sale, class 55.40 for accommodation, and class 56.40 for food and beverage service activities. Paragraph 135 of the manual lists the classes, and it states that the new classes were created in the divisions where the goods and services are produced. The classes are statistical headings. They do not determine a code for a specific reader.

What are the four classes?

Paragraph 135 lists the classes with their titles. Class 47.91 is intermediation service activities for non specialised retail sale. Class 47.92 is intermediation service activities for specialised retail sale. Class 55.40 is intermediation service activities for accommodation. Class 56.40 is intermediation service activities for food and beverage service activities. The titles follow a common pattern: intermediation service activities for, followed by the kind of sale, accommodation or service concerned. The pattern is the same across the whole intermediation family, which paragraph 135 lists across twenty one classes in different divisions, and the pattern signals that the classes are grouped by the service intermediated for, not by the technique of intermediation.

The division placement follows the same principle. The retail intermediation classes sit in division 47, retail trade, beside the retail classes whose sales they intermediate for. The accommodation class sits in division 55, accommodation, beside the accommodation classes. The food service class sits in division 56, food and beverage service activities, beside the food service classes. The manual states the principle in paragraph 135: the new classes were created in the divisions where the goods and services are produced. A reader who looks for a single intermediation division will not find one, because the family is deliberately spread across the divisions it serves.

How do the retail classes divide?

The two retail classes divide by the specialised and non specialised distinction that governs retail trade itself. Class 47.91 covers intermediation for non specialised retail sale, and class 47.92 covers intermediation for specialised retail sale. The distinction is the same distinction that separates group 47.1, non specialised retail trade, from groups 47.2 to 47.8, specialised retail trade, in the top down adaptation for trade covered in the principal activity cluster. The intermediation classes reproduce the distinction at the level of the intermediation service, so that statistics can show intermediation for general retail apart from intermediation for specialised retail. The notes for the two classes state the contents in full, and section 4 does not reproduce them. This guide does not state inclusion lists that it has not verified from the notes.

The division between the two retail classes must be read with the notes for the retail classes themselves. Intermediation for a sale is not the sale itself, and the note for each intermediation class states what counts as intermediation for that kind of sale, in general terms, including the treatment of services that combine intermediation with other work. The note for group 63.9 excludes intermediation service activities for retail sale to group 47.9, which shows the boundary from the information services side: a general information service that also intermediates for retail sales is not classified in group 63.9 for the intermediation part. The notes for both sides must be read where the character of the work is in question.

How are the four classes laid out?

| New class | Title in paragraph 135 | Division where created |

|---|---|---|

| 47.91 | Intermediation service activities for non specialised retail sale | 47, retail trade |

| 47.92 | Intermediation service activities for specialised retail sale | 47, retail trade |

| 55.40 | Intermediation service activities for accommodation | 55, accommodation |

| 56.40 | Intermediation service activities for food and beverage service activities | 56, food and beverage service activities |

The table follows paragraph 135. It lists the four classes, their titles and their divisions, and nothing more, because section 4 states nothing more about the classes. The explanatory notes for the classes, and the correspondence table, supply the content and the mapping from the old structure, where the intermediation work was held in other classes, principally in the old travel and information service classes. The table in this guide is a summary of the manual summary, and it must not be quoted as a statement of the content of any class.

What does a new class not decide?

Unless the manual states the source in section 4 or in an explanatory note, the old classes supplying a new class content are not stated in this cluster. Where the manual does not state the source, the guide says so and points to the correspondence table, which records the relationship class by class. From a title alone, no source list can be invented without misstating the revision and inviting a one to one mapping assumption the table does not support. Directly stated in the guardrail, the limit is repeated in the body of the guide in wording written for this guide.

Where is a new class confirmed?

Confirming a new class means reading its explanatory note, reading the correspondence table entry that relates its content to the old classes, and asking the national statistical institute or business register holding the record about the entry for the unit concerned.

Place each intermediation class in the division it serves, read its note beside the note for the service intermediated for, and confirm the entry with the institute or register that holds it.