New Polish Classification of Activities - PKD 2025
On 27 December 2024, the Regulation of the Council of Ministers concerning the Polish Classification of Activities (PKD) was published in the Journal of Laws. The new regulation, which introduced changes to the classification, aims to adapt it to current economic realities and ensure compliance with international standards. The classification system in force since 1 January 2025 is more transparent and enables effective monitoring of changes in the structure of the economy.
The full text of the regulation is available at: https://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2024/1936
The introduced changes have adapted the PKD to dynamically changing market, technological, and social realities. The revised classification includes new types of activities that have emerged in the economy in recent years and ensures the harmonisation of economic statistics within the European Union in areas such as the digital economy, circular economy, and bioeconomy. Greater precision has also been introduced in the description of traditional industries, making it easier for companies to match their activities to the appropriate codes.
The need to issue PKD 2025, replacing the previous PKD 2007, resulted from changes made to the European Union classification – the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE). Between 2018 and 2021, the preliminary draft structure of the new NACE Rev. 2.1 classification was the subject of extensive consultations with EU Member States (including Poland), and after taking into account comments submitted by users, it was adopted in May 2022 during the 49th Meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC).
The national counterpart of the NACE classification is the Polish Classification of Activities (PKD). In 2022, Statistics Poland (the Central Statistical Office) conducted consultations regarding the national level of the new Polish Classification of Activities PKD 2025, based on the revised NACE Rev. 2.1. These consultations enabled PKD users to propose changes at the national level, i.e. the fifth PKD character (XX.XX.A).
The Polish Classification of Activities (PKD) is widely used in the economy, not only for statistical purposes but also for classifying business entities in official registers.
The collected information makes it possible to observe individual industries, the structure of the economy, and the trends affecting it.
Due to the wide application of the PKD, the introduced changes to the classification affect:
the need to reclassify business entities for the purposes of the National Official Business Register (REGON), the National Court Register (KRS), and the Central Registration and Information on Business (CEIDG) according to the type of activity they conduct,
the need to reclassify entities for the purposes of statistical registers (BJS) according to the activities they conduct,
the incorporation of the new classification into ongoing statistical surveys and the recalculation of time series data.
Furthermore, the changes introduced to the activity classification will be reflected in product classifications, namely the Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) at the EU level and the Polish Classification of Goods and Services (PKWiU) at the national level.
We invite you to watch the coverage of the conference from the series “The Idea for Developing Your Business” organised by PARP, the topic of which was changes in the Polish Classification of Activities.