NACE N74 - Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities

Activities

Industrial product and fashion design activities:

• Includes: Fashion design related to textiles, wearing apparel, shoes, jewellery, furniture and other interior decoration, and other fashion goods, as well as other personal or household goods; industrial design, carried out also through specialised software, i.e. creating and developing designs and specifications that optimise the use, value, package and appearance of products, including the determination of the materials, mechanism, shape, colour and surface finishes of the product, taking into consideration human characteristics and needs, safety, market appeal in distribution, use and maintenance
• Excludes: Engineering design, i.e. applying physical laws and principles of engineering in the design of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes and systems; design of computer plans for 3D printing

Graphic design and visual communication activities:

• Includes: Activities of graphic designers; graphic design of web pages; activities of communication designers; activities specialised in the design of messages and information, taking into account the characteristics and needs of people, corporate objectives, market attractiveness and dissemination media; design and consulting in the content and external appearance of campaigns and communication content; conception and design of visual images (corporate design) and media of corporate communication; brand design and brand updating; determination of visual language (form, colour, typography of publications, didactic illustration of complex and abstract contexts)
• Excludes: Design of computer-produced graphics for animations; designing the structure of web pages applying principles of software engineering; web design in combination with programming of web pages

Interior design activities:

• Includes: Activities of interior decorators; provision of interior design services (e.g. the planning and designing of interior spaces to meet the aesthetic and functional needs of people focusing mainly on finishes, furniture and colour palettes); drafting designs for interior decoration
• Excludes: Architectural design activities

Other specialised design activities:

• Excludes: Design of computer-produced graphics for animations

Activities

• Includes: Commercial and consumer photograph such as portrait photography for passports, schools, weddings, etc.; photography for commercials, publishers, fashion, real estate or tourism purposes; aerial and underwater photography; videotaping of events: weddings, meetings, etc.; film processing; developing, printing and enlarging from client-taken negatives or cine-films; film developing and photo printing laboratories; one-hour photo shops (not part of shops selling cameras); mounting of slides; copying and restoring or transparency retouching in connection with photographs; activities of photojournalists; creating artistic photographs; microfilming of documents; digitising photographs, uploading video to the cloud; object scanning in 3D.
• Excludes: Activities of printing photographs (from mobile telephones, memory cards, universal serial bus (USB) and other electronic supports; processing motion picture film related to motion picture and television industries; cartographic and spatial information activities; photogrammetric surveying activities; operation of coin-operated (self-service) photo machines.

Activities

• Includes: Translation and interpretation of all languages, including sign language, whether spoken or written.

• Excludes: Publishing translation software; development of translation tools and training translation engines; language teaching activities.

Activities

All other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

• Includes: Business brokerage activities, i.e. arranging for the purchase and sale of small and medium-sized businesses, including professional practices, but excluding real estate brokerage; appraisal activities other than for real estate and insurance (e.g. appraisal activities for antiques, jewellery, etc.); bill auditing and provision of freight rate information; weather forecasting activities; consulting in the area of occupational safety and health at the workplace; provision of agronomy consulting services; environmental consulting activities; energy-saving advice activities; other technical consulting; activities of quantity surveyors; activities carried out by agents and agencies on behalf of individuals usually involving the obtaining of engagements in motion picture, theatrical production or other entertainment or sports attractions, as well as the placement of books, plays, artworks, photographs, etc., with publishers, producers, etc.; economic services for construction projects (e.g. by construction economists); supervisory board activities; activities of planning and elaboration of projects in the area of hunting management; activities of estimation of the number of game animals.
• Excludes: Activities of auctioning houses (wholesale) and online auction activities (wholesale); activities of auctioning houses (retail sale) and online auction activities (retail sale); activities of real estate brokers; bookkeeping activities; activities of management consultants; activities of architecture and engineering consultants; environmental engineering activities; geodetic surveying activities; industrial and machinery design; veterinary testing and control in relation to food production; display of advertisements and other advertising design; sales promotion service activities; security consultants’ activities; activities of convention and trade show organisers; administration of loyalty programmes; consultation of medical doctors; consumer credit and debt counselling.