2651 Manufacture of instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation


Corresponding CPA codes

  • 26.51.1 Navigational, meteorological, geophysical and similar instruments and appliances
  • 26.51.11 Direction-finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances

    This subcategory includes:

    • navigational instruments and appliances for services, such as the global positioning system (GPS) and Galileo
  • 26.51.12 Theodolites and tachymetres (tachometers); other surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances

    This subcategory excludes:

    • rangefinders, see 26.70.24
  • 26.51.2 Radar apparatus and radio navigational aid apparatus
  • 26.51.20 Radar apparatus and radio navigational aid apparatus
  • 26.51.3 Precision balances; instruments for drawing, calculating, measuring length and the like
  • 26.51.31 Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better
  • 26.51.32 Drafting tables and machines and other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments
  • 26.51.33 Instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (including micrometers and callipers) n.e.c.

    This subcategory also includes:

    • micrometers and callipers
  • 26.51.4 Instruments for measuring electrical quantities or ionising radiations
  • 26.51.41 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting ionising radiations
  • 26.51.42 Cathode-ray oscilloscopes and cathode-ray oscillographs
  • 26.51.43 Instruments for measuring electrical quantities without a recording device
  • 26.51.44 Instruments and apparatus for telecommunications
  • 26.51.45 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities n.e.c.
  • 26.51.5 Instrument for checking other physical characteristics
  • 26.51.51 Hydrometers, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers
  • 26.51.52 Instruments for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids and gases
  • 26.51.53 Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis n.e.c.

    This subcategory excludes:

    • light meters, see 26.70.24
  • 26.51.6 Other measuring, checking and testing instruments and appliances
  • 26.51.61 Microscopes (except optical microscopes) and diffraction apparatus

    This subcategory excludes:

    • optical microscopes, see 26.70.22
  • 26.51.62 Machines and appliances for testing the mechanical properties of materials
  • 26.51.63 Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters
  • 26.51.64 Revolution and production counters, taximeters; speed indicators and tachometers

    This subcategory excludes:

    • stroboscopes, see 26.70.24
  • 26.51.65 Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus, hydraulic or pneumatic
  • 26.51.66 Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines n.e.c.

    This subcategory excludes:

    • profile projectors and optical instruments and appliances n.e.c., see 26.70.24
  • 26.51.7 Thermostats, manostats and other automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
  • 26.51.70 Thermostats, manostats and other automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
  • 26.51.8 Parts and accessories for measuring, testing and navigating equipment
  • 26.51.81 Parts of radar apparatus and radio navigational aid apparatus
  • 26.51.82 Parts and accessories for the goods of 26.51.12, 26.51.32, 26.51.33, 26.51.4 and 26.51.5; microtomes; parts n.e.c.
  • 26.51.83 Parts and accessories of microscopes (other than optical) and of diffraction apparatus
  • 26.51.84 Parts and accessories for the goods of 26.51.63 and 26.51.64
  • 26.51.85 Parts and accessories of instruments and apparatus of 26.51.65, 26.51.66 and 26.51.70
  • 26.51.86 Parts and accessories of instruments and apparatus of 26.51.11 and 26.51.62
  • 26.51.9 Sub-contracted operations as part of manufacturing of measuring, testing and navigating equipment
  • 26.51.99 Sub-contracted operations as part of manufacturing of measuring, testing and navigating equipment

Codification rules

Priority in case of multiple activities

If production, repair and sales activities are carried out, the priority is as follows :

- if production and sale: production takes priority
- if production and repair: production takes priority
- if repair and sale: repair takes priority

Outsourced activities (outsourcing)

There are several types of outsourcing, the enterprise may outsource::
• Part of a production process, classification: production
• All of a production process
o & owner of commodities, classification: production
o & non-owner of commodities, classification: section G, M or N :

For a construction enterprise:
• Part of the construction activities, classification: construction - section F

Further information:
- Introduction to NOGA 2008