United Nations Statistics Division

Changes between Changes between CPC Ver.2 and CPC Ver.2.1CPC Ver.2 and CPC Ver.2.1

History

The Expert Group at its meeting in 2011 agreed to undertake an update of the Central Product Classification (CPC)

It was emphasized that this would be an “update” only, not a “revision” focusing on improving the detail and structure in

selected areas only and at low levels of the classification only

History

A detailed proposal listing of the changes to be made to the CPC has been provided to the Statistical Commission in 2012

Sources Changes in the CPC were based on

(a) a regular assessment of the impact of the 2012 amendments to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), which forms the building blocks for sections 0-4 of CPC;

(b) an assessment of the linkages between CPC and the Standard International Energy Product Classification (SIEC), with a view to improve the comparability of the two classifications

(c) a proposal by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to adapt the detail of CPC in selected areas of agriculture and food products to allow for CPC to be used directly for data collection in agricultural statistics; and

(d) feedback received on CPC issues in the Statistics Division Classifications Hotline. No additional proposals have been received during the review period.

Problems The conclusion of a number of issues related to

energy statistics was postponed and will be taken up again for the next scheduled review in 2017.

This is a result of detailed discussions that have revealed definitional problems that need to be clarified with users of the energy product classification and may require adjustments within that classification.

Making changes to the CPC based on the current definitions of the energy product classification would have been premature and could have resulted in unnecessary deviations from established CPC standards.

List of issues

A. Issues requiring conceptual discussion 9 - Separation of aquaculture primary products and

capture fishery primary products (FAO) 15 - Expand detail of CPC section on forest

products according to the structure used by FAO (FAO)

29 – Biofuels (SIEC, FAO, HS) 35 - Introduce additional detail for recyclable

materials (Voorburg) 36 - Align categories for R&D in CPC with Frascati

Manual categories (Voorburg) 37 - Clarify inclusion of “implementation” in

management consultancy (Voorburg)

List of issues B. Issues requiring clarification (details, links, formulation)

1 - Cereals (FAO) 2 - Chicory roots (FAO) 11 - Introduce consistent and more detailed structure in biological

groupings for fish (FAO) 14 - Other aquatic plants and animals (FAO) 18 - Sanitary towels etc. (HS) 20 - Biodiesel (HS, SIEC) 27 - Improve link from CPC to SIEC (SIEC) 28 - Improve link from SIEC to CPC (SIEC) 32 - Terminology for coal (SIEC) 33 - Uranium, Plutonium, Thorium and other nuclear materials (SIEC) 34 - Smoked aquatic invertebrate products (HS) 38 - Increase detail for telecommunications products (Voorburg) 39 - Introduce distinction between domestic and international courier

service (Voorburg) 40 - Introduce separate subclasses for household moving and storage vs.

business moving and storage, i.e. splitting CPC 65115 (Voorburg) 42 - Logistics (Voorburg)

List of issues C. Issues that seem straightforward

3 - Livestock, equines (FAO) 4 - Eggs (FAO) 5 - Kola nuts (FAO) 6 - Vegetable oils (FAO) 7 - Groats and pellets (FAO) 8 - Fertilizers (FAO) 10 - Separation of live fish and fresh or chilled fish in primary production (FAO) 12 - Introduce consistent and more detailed structure in biological groupings for crustaceans

(FAO) 13 - Molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (FAO) 16 - Non-Chemically defined products (HS) 17 - Water-jet cutting machines (HS) 19 - Image projectors etc. (HS) 21 - Hazardous chemicals and pesticides (HS) 22 - Edible fish offal (HS) 23 - Black liquor (SIEC) 24 - Bagasse (SIEC) 25 - Wood pellets (SIEC) 26 - Ethylene, propylene, butylene, butadiene and other petroleum gases or gaseous

hydrocarbons, except natural gas (SIEC) 30 - Align definitions of oil products with SIEC 31 - Crude oil / hydrogen (SIEC) 41 - Distinction between urban/suburban and interurban rail service (Voorburg) 43 - Buying and selling of own real estate (Voorburg)

Additional work Final review of explanatory notes

check of exclusions etc., duplications

Review of outstanding issues from CPC 2 Boundary questions, correspondence questions,

inconsistencies in explanatory notes

Review of correspondence tables CPC 2.1 – HS 2012 CPC 2.1 – CPC 2 CPC 2.1 – ISIC 4

Additional work

Introduction - completed Annexes - completed

One outstanding issue on a specific outsourcing product Now resolved

All the above reviewed by the TSG-CPC

Final release?

Translation

What can we provide for the translation? Complete list of changes

With indication of what has changed E.g. in Word document with highlights

Full text of introduction and annexes