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What is group 60.3, news agency and other content distribution activities?
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Group 60.3 covers news agency and other content distribution activities. It was created in NACE Rev. 2.1, as paragraph 166 states, consisting of class 60.31, news agency activities, moved from group 63.9, and the new class 60.39, other content distribution activities. The group sits in division 60, in the new Section J. The group is a statistical heading. A specific reader code is not determined here.
What are the two classes in the group?
Class 60.31 carries the news agency work that moved from the old group 63.9. The class number is new, and the group number is new, but the activity content is the content that previously sat in the information service division. The move is recorded in paragraph 166, and the correspondence table records the class level move. The explanatory note for the class states what news agency activities include and exclude in the new structure, and the note must be read in the new section context, because the class now sits with the publishing and broadcasting divisions, and its neighbouring classes are the programming and broadcasting classes in division 60, not the information service classes in division 63.
Class 60.39 is the new class in the group, for other content distribution activities. The word other signals the residual character of the class within the group: it holds the content distribution work that does not belong in the news agency class, after that class has been applied. Section 4 does not reproduce the note for the class, and this guide does not state an inclusion list for the class that it has not verified from the note. The note states the contents, including the treatment of distribution work that is independent of publishing and broadcasting, and the treatment of distribution work that forms part of a publishing or broadcasting activity, where the notes for the neighbouring classes govern the boundary in general terms.
Why was the group created in division 60?
The group was created as part of the Section J split, to give content distribution a home with the content production divisions. Paragraph 165 states the objective of the new Section J: to reflect that publishing, broadcasting, and content production and distribution activities are often carried out together. Group 60.3 is the structural expression of the distribution part of that objective, inside the division that already covers programming, broadcasting and content distribution. The group therefore completes the division: division 60 now covers programming and broadcasting, news agency work, and other content distribution, under one division heading, in the new section.
The creation of the group also illustrates the difference between a move and a creation. Class 60.31 is a move: its content existed in the old structure, under a different group, and it has been moved to a new group. Class 60.39 is a creation: its number and title did not exist in the old structure, and its content is the content the manual gives it in the new structure, which may include work previously held in several old classes, as the correspondence table records. A reader who treats both classes as moves, or both as creations, will misread the table, because the table records the two kinds of change differently, and the notes state the scopes differently.
How is the group laid out?
| Class | Character in paragraph 166 |
|---|---|
| 60.31, news agency activities | Moved from NACE Rev. 2 group 63.9 |
| 60.39, other content distribution activities | New class |
The table follows paragraph 166. It states the two classes and their character, and nothing more, because section 4 states nothing more about the group. The explanatory notes for the two classes, and the correspondence table, supply the content and the mapping. The table in this guide summarises the manual summary, and quoting it as the content of either class would misstate it.
What does a new class not decide?
The creation of a class does not, by itself, move a unit from one class to another. Classification by principal activity follows the introductory guidelines, and the institute or register holds the entry for a unit. A new class gives statistics a finer heading under which to count the activity, where the data allow it. This change reclassifies no unit automatically, and it does not place every unit whose work resembles the new title in the new class. Quoting the new class for any purpose should wait until the note for the class, the correspondence table, and the holder of the record have been consulted in that order.
Where is a new class confirmed?
The note, the table, and the holder of the record are the three parts of a confirmation. The note states what the new class contains. The table states where its content came from in the old structure. For a specific unit, the institute or register states the entry held. No step replaces another.
Keep the moved news agency class apart from the new distribution class, read both notes in the Section J context, and confirm the entry with the institute or register that holds it.