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Prostitution in CAEN codes, nothing new

Discussion about CAEN codes and how people are rediscovering what they are without fully understanding.

โ€” Stefan-Lucian Deleanu

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Our experience with CAEN codes

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The same argument was the subject of a case that was definitively lost in court.

The argument now becomes a public debate, which will soon be resolved by the National Authority, and which I unsuccessfully litigated in the impartial and thoroughly prepared courts of Romania.

I will not refrain from a more ironic treatment.

Since the dawn of humanity, there has been a desire to classify the various phenomena and objects that surround us.

The same thing happens in economics, where for analysis, we use classifications (which involve statistical categories). Statistical categories are usually designed to be interoperable, so that information can be compared.

Since apples cannot be compared to pears, you need a unified system where white is white, not a shade of light gray, and black is not a dark gray, in all EU countries and worldwide.

To this end, the ISIC classification was invented, which has undergone continuous revisions. ISIC is a standard of the UNSTATS department (of the United Nations). The 5th revision of ISIC is imminent.

UNSD โ€” ISIC
United Nations Statistics Divisin - ISIC

About ISIC, which is based on NACE Rev 2.1, which is the foundation of CAEN REV. 3

At the EU level, the implementation of ISIC in the single market has been carried out through NACE, which has undergone various revisions. NACE Rev 1 (CAEN 1), NACE Rev 2 (CAEN 2), and NACE Rev 2.1 (CAEN 3).

Overview - NACE - Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics and data on Europe.

Romania must directly apply the classification in the national economy. even if certain activities are not legal in Romania. This is the regulatory law that allows or prohibits certain activities; another is the economic classification.

I have received enough insults and attacks from lawyers when I argued this, and I tried to explain it to both economists and jurists. After receiving enough slaps, I come again to remind that the existence of a CAEN code for prostitution (there is one for every human activity) does not mean it is regulated.

On the contraryIf there is no explicitly named activity in CAEN, that does not make the activity illegal.

I litigated this matter and lost. Up to the High Court of Cassation and Justice. Because you cannot automate accounting as there is no CAEN code for such a thing, and it certainly does not fall under accounting (although thatโ€™s what the National Institute of Statistics told me).

Old counterexample

CAEN codes do not confer rights or obligations. I invite you to explore certain CAEN codes. The mere existence of these codes does not mean you are allowed to establish a Wagner army in Romania, become an embassy, or engage in similar activities. Night of the mind!

CAEN Rev. 3 - 8422 (Defense Activities)

Include

  • Management, oversight, and operation of military defense businesses and land, maritime, air, and space defense forces, such as:
    • The armed forces of the army, navy, and air force
    • Engineering, transport, communications, intelligence, materials, personnel, and other non-combat forces and commands
    • Reserve and auxiliary forces of the defense system
    • Military logistics (provision of equipment, structures, supplies, etc.)
    • Health activities for military personnel in the field
  • Administration, operation, and support of civil defense forces
  • Support for the development of contingency plans and the conduct of exercises involving institutions and civilian populations.
  • Management of research and development policies related to defense and the associated funding

Exclusions

This class excludes:

  • Research and experimental development activities, see division 72
  • Provision of military assistance to foreign countries, see 8421
  • Activities of military courts, see 8423
  • Provision of supplies for internal emergency situations in case of disasters during peacetime, see 8423
  • The educational activities of schools, colleges, and military academies, see 8530
  • Activities of military hospitals, see 8610

CAEN Rev. 3 - 3030 (Manufacture of aircraft, spacecraft, and related machinery)

  • Manufacturing aircraft for the transportation of goods or passengers, for military, sports, or other purposes.
  • Helicopter manufacturing
  • Manufacturing of gliders and delta wings
  • Manufacturing airships and hot air balloons
  • Manufacturing parts and accessories for aircraft in this class:
    • Major assemblies such as fuselages, wings, doors, control surfaces, landing gear, fuel tanks, nacelles, etc.
    • Helices, helicopter rotors, and powered rotor blades
    • Engines of the type commonly used in aircraft
    • Parts for turbojet and turboprop engines for aircraft
  • Ground-based flight simulator manufacturing
  • Manufacturing of spacecraft and launch vehicles, satellites, planetary probes, space stations, shuttles
  • Manufacturing of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)

Conclusion

CAEN codes do not confer rights or freedoms. Let's get this foolish idea out of our heads!