What happened to division 63, information services?

Division 63 was divided by the Section J split and restructured inside the new Section K. Part of its content moved to Section J, and the rest was reorganised into two groups: group 63.1 for computing infrastructure, and group 63.9 for web search portals and other information services. Paragraphs 165, 171 and 172 state the changes. The restructuring does not determine a code for a specific reader.

What left division 63?

Paragraph 165 states that the new Section J includes the activities of news agencies and postproduction recording conversion services to streaming formats, formerly in division 63. A separate guide in this cluster covers that move in detail, including the creation of group 60.3. The point here is the effect on division 63: the division lost the content production and distribution work that sat inside it under NACE Rev. 2, and retained the infrastructure, search and general information service work. The division number 63 is retained, but its content is narrower than the old division of the same number, and its section has changed from the old Section J to the new Section K.

The narrowing is a reminder that a division number alone does not carry its content across versions. Division 63 in NACE Rev. 2 and division 63 in NACE Rev. 2.1 share a number and a place in Section K in the new version, but their contents differ by the moved activities. The correspondence table records the class level moves, and the explanatory notes for the new groups record the current content. A reader who assumes the old division content has carried over unchanged will include content that the manual has moved, and will miss the new group structure that replaces it.

What are the two new groups?

Paragraph 171 creates group 63.1, computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities, with a single class 63.10 of the same title. The group includes cloud infrastructure and platform provision, cloud computing except software publishing and computer systems design, blockchain and distributed ledger technology data processing, and technical infrastructure provisioning related to streaming. The list is from paragraph 171, and the full inclusions and exclusions are in the explanatory note for class 63.10. The group is new in the sense that the grouping did not exist under NACE Rev. 2, even though much of its content existed in the old division under other numbers.

Paragraph 172 creates group 63.9, web search portal activities and other information service activities, with classes 63.91, web search portal activities, and 63.92, other information service activities. Class 63.92 was created to cover web sites that use a search engine to generate and maintain extensive databases of internet addresses and content in an easily searchable format, as part of the former class 63.12, web portals. Class 63.91 carries the web search portal work itself. The group note states that the primary source of revenue from advertising does not have a bearing on classification for these activities, a point the manual prints in the group note and which this guide reproduces because it corrects a common misreading of the group.

How is the division laid out now?

| Group | Classes | Summary of content |

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

| 63.1 | 63.10 | Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities |

| 63.9 | 63.91, 63.92 | Web search portal activities and other information service activities |

The table follows paragraphs 171 and 172. The division has two groups and three classes in total, after the move of content to Section J. The table is a summary of the manual’s section 4 account. The explanatory notes for the groups and classes state the inclusions, exclusions and borderline cases in full, and the correspondence table states how each old class in the division maps to the new structure. Both must be read before a code from the old division is restated in Rev. 2.1 terms.

What does the split not decide?

Every statement in this cluster about a move between versions is a statement about the published structure, not a statement about a specific unit. The manual records the moves at section, division, group and class level, and the correspondence tables record the moves class by class. Where a move is one to many or many to many, the table does not pick a new class for a specific unit. Reading the explanatory note for each new class and confirming the entry with the national statistical institute or business register holding the record are both required.

Where is a moved code confirmed?

To confirm a move caused by the split, read the explanatory note for the Rev. 2.1 category, read the correspondence table entry for the Rev. 2 code, and confirm the entry held for the unit concerned with the national statistical institute or the business register that holds the record.

Read division 63 as two groups after the content move, check the notes for classes 63.10, 63.91 and 63.92, and confirm the entry with the institute or register that holds it.