Historical overview of the development of the National Classification of Activities (NKD), from 2025 onwards
The classification of activities needs to be adapted to the development and structural changes of the economy, measure new phenomena and enable international comparability of data, which is why the revision of the European classification NACE Rev. 2 began in 2019.
Taking into account the changes that have occurred in economic activities since the last revision in 2007, the new classification version NACE Rev. 2.1 was created at the European level. The classification was adopted by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 and it started to apply on 1 January 2025.
A new version of the statistical classification of economic activities called NACE Rev. 2.1 was introduced within the European Union, which was published on 20 January 2023 in the Official Journal of the European Union as the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 October 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2, which will apply from 1 January 2025.
Comparing NACE Rev. 2.1 with NACE Rev. 2, it can be concluded that the new classification version is more detailed because, at the lowest level, it has a total of 651 classes or 36 classes more compared to NACE Rev. 2. Classes are grouped into 287 groups (15 categories more), groups into 87 divisions (one division less), and divisions at the highest level into 22 sections (one section more).
In accordance with the revised version NACE Rev. 2.1 and national needs, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics has prepared a new classification version NKD 2025. It was adopted by the Decision on the National Classification of Activities, 2025 version - NKD 2025 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia, No. 47/24), which replaced NKD 2007. The compliance of the new classification version NKD 2025 with NACE Rev. 2.1 has already been verified and approved by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission
Taking into account the changes that have occurred in economic activities since the last revision in 2007, the new classification version NACE Rev. 2.1 was created at the European level. The classification was adopted by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 and it started to apply on 1 January 2025.
A new version of the statistical classification of economic activities called NACE Rev. 2.1 was introduced within the European Union, which was published on 20 January 2023 in the Official Journal of the European Union as the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 of 10 October 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2, which will apply from 1 January 2025.
Comparing NACE Rev. 2.1 with NACE Rev. 2, it can be concluded that the new classification version is more detailed because, at the lowest level, it has a total of 651 classes or 36 classes more compared to NACE Rev. 2. Classes are grouped into 287 groups (15 categories more), groups into 87 divisions (one division less), and divisions at the highest level into 22 sections (one section more).
In accordance with the revised version NACE Rev. 2.1 and national needs, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics has prepared a new classification version NKD 2025. It was adopted by the Decision on the National Classification of Activities, 2025 version - NKD 2025 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia, No. 47/24), which replaced NKD 2007. The compliance of the new classification version NKD 2025 with NACE Rev. 2.1 has already been verified and approved by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission