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If you need to use statistics presented by CPA heading, it is important to know what products are categorised under which heading. You will also need this information if you have to determine how to classify a product in the CPA.

Using CPA Ver. 2.2

The CPA version 2.2 structure, as set out in the regulation, is not sufficiently self-explanatory to allow you to classify each product. Therefore, Eurostat and its partners in the European Statistical System (ESS) have developed  explanatory notes about which product is classified under which CPA heading.

For each category, the explanatory notes may include a detailed list of products organised as follows: 

  • includes: specifies the contents of the category
  • includes also: a list of borderline cases, which belong to the described category
  • excludes: a list of borderline cases, which do not belong to the described category. Excluded cases may be accompanied by a reference to the categories to which the excluded cases belong. 

For CPA headings corresponding to goods, the explanatory note entries are frequently empty since the content of these is identified by the combined nomenclature (CN). Thus, highly granular information on each such CPA heading is instead provided in the correspondence table between the CPA and the CN.