How did class 16.29 split?

Class 16.29, manufacture of other products of wood and manufacture of articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials, in NACE Rev. 2, split into three new classes in NACE Rev. 2.1: class 16.26, manufacture of solid fuels from vegetable biomass; class 16.27, finishing of wooden products; and class 16.28, manufacture of other products of wood and articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials. Paragraph 141 of the manual states the split. A specific reader code is not determined here.

What did the old class cover, in the manual summary?

The old title names three kinds of output: other products of wood, articles of cork, and articles of straw and plaiting materials. The word other in the title signals a residual character: the class held wood products that did not belong in the more specific wood classes of group 16.2, together with the cork, straw and plaiting work named in the title. The manual summary in paragraph 141 does not reproduce the full explanatory note for the old class, and this guide does not reconstruct the old note from the title. The old note belongs to NACE Rev. 2, and the new notes belong to NACE Rev. 2.1. The split must be read from the new notes and the correspondence table, not from the old title alone.

The split separates three different kinds of work that the old class held together. Solid fuel manufacture from vegetable biomass is separated into its own class, because the manual treats fuel production as distinct from other wood product manufacture. Finishing of wooden products is separated into its own class, because the finishing process, refining or protecting a wooden surface, is distinct from making the product itself. The remaining wood, cork, straw and plaiting products stay in a class that keeps the old title, with a new number. The separation follows the character of the work, in the manual’s usual grouping principle, and it is recorded at class level only: the group, division and section do not change.

What does each new class contain, according to its note?

Class 16.26 includes, in the words of its explanatory note, manufacture of briquettes, fire logs and pellets from agglomerated sawdust, wood waste and scrap, straw or other vegetable biomass. The note excludes manufacture of animal feed from soybean waste to class 10.9, slicing, peeling or chipping logs to class 16.11, and manufacture of peat briquettes to class 19.20. The exclusions matter, because each one names a neighbouring activity that a reader might otherwise place in the new class on the strength of the fuel wording alone. The note, not the title, draws those lines.

Class 16.27 includes the process of refining or protecting wooden surfaces, for example coating, impregnating, finishing, polishing, buffing, oiling, waxing, bleaching, staining, painting or varnishing of wooden products. The note excludes reupholstering, refinishing and repairing of furniture to class 95.24. Class 16.28 includes a long list of wood products, natural cork processing and agglomerated cork, cork articles, plaits and plaiting products, basket ware and wickerwork, wooden mirror and picture frames, umbrella and cane handles, and blocks for smoking pipes, with exclusions to textile mats, luggage, wooden footwear, matches, clock cases, textile machinery parts, furniture, wooden toys, brooms and brushes, coffins and cork life preservers, each to its stated class. The lists are summaries of the notes as the manual prints them, and the notes themselves must be read in full before a code is quoted.

How is the split shown in a table?

| NACE Rev. 2.1 class | Title in the manual | Kind of work separated |

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

| 16.26 | Manufacture of solid fuels from vegetable biomass | Fuel manufacture from biomass |

| 16.27 | Finishing of wooden products | Surface refining and protection |

| 16.28 | Manufacture of other products of wood and articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials | Remaining wood, cork, straw and plaiting products |

The table follows paragraph 141 and the notes for the three classes. It shows the three way split in the form a reader meets in the detailed structure. It does not show the correspondence type for the old class, because paragraph 141 does not state the type, and the type must be read from the correspondence table. A clean three way split would be recorded as one to many, but the manual’s overall counts, 11 one to many classes and 225 many to many classes across the classification, warn against assuming a clean split without checking the table. The table entry for 16.29 is the authority on the type.

What does a split not decide?

A split in the classification is a change in the structure of the published categories. It is not a decision about a specific unit. When one old class becomes two or more new classes, the scopes are recorded in the correspondence table, and each new class explanatory note states what it includes and excludes. Neither document picks a new class for a specific unit. The classification is statistical only. Confirmation of the entry for a specific unit comes from the institute or register holding the record, not from the classification, which decides no tax, licensing, social security, collective agreement or funding matter.

Where is a split class confirmed?

The check for a split class runs in three steps. First, the section 4 summary in the manual for the change as adopted. Second, the explanatory notes for the new classes, for inclusions and exclusions. The third check is the institute or register for the entry actually held. This guide gives the first step and points to the other two.

Read the three new notes side by side, check the correspondence entry for the old class, and confirm the entry with the institute or register that holds it.