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France: NAF 2025 and APE recoding
France and NAF 2025, the APE recoding timetable, and where a French code is checked and rectified.
The four levels
- Level 1 Section One letter
- Level 2 Division Two digits
- Level 3 Group Three digits
- Level 4 Class Four digits
Guides in this cluster
- How do French statistics use NAF 2025?
How French statistics use NAF 2025, and how the French register date relates to the European data timetable.
- How does the section letter shift work in France?
How the section letter shift from the split of the old Section J works in France, and how to read French codes across the change.
- How is a future APE code checked in Sirene?
How a future APE code is checked in Sirene, what is needed for the check, and what the result shows.
- How is a code read in a French dataset?
How a code in a French dataset is read, including version, date and the limits of a bare code.
- How is rectification of a future APE code requested?
How rectification of a future APE code is requested through Sirene, and what happens after a request.
- How is the NAF correspondence material used?
How the correspondence material for NAF rev. 2 to NAF 2025 is used, and what it can and cannot show.
- What changes for new and existing units in France?
What changes for new and existing units in France under NAF 2025, and what stays the same.
- What do the published APE examples show?
What the APE examples published by Service Public show about format, and why they must not be used as new codes.
- What does an APE code not decide in France?
What an APE code does not decide in France, and why other bodies rules govern the questions readers often attach to the code.
- What is an APE code?
What an APE code is, how its format is built, and what the code does and does not show.
- What is NAF 2025?
What NAF 2025 is, when it becomes the reference for APE codes, and how it relates to NACE Rev. 2.1.
- What is asked of INSEE or Sirene when checking a code?
What to ask INSEE or Sirene when checking a code, and what information to have ready before asking.
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