NACE-BEL P—Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Where P sits

1. P Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Contains 1 narrower code

• 84 Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

What P includes

• This section includes governmental activities normally carried out by the public administration. It includes the promulgation and judicial interpretation of laws and their implementing regulations, as well as the administration of programs established under these laws and regulations, legislative services, taxation, national defence, public order and security, immigration services, foreign affairs, and the administration of public programs.
• Legal or institutional status is not, in itself, the determining factor for classifying an activity in this section; rather, the activity must be of a nature described in the preceding paragraph. This means that activities classified elsewhere in the NACE Code do not fall under this section, even if they are carried out by public bodies (for example, the oversight of education—in other words, regulation, control, and curricula—falls under this section, but not the actual teaching activity (see section Q), while a prison or a military hospital is classified under healthcare (see section R)). Similarly, some activities described in this section may be carried out by non-governmental entities.
• This section also includes mandatory social security services.

P in other systems