cleaning and parts cleaning (machinery and equipment), disinfection of workplaces and buildings,
maintenance of areas around buildings, chimney sweeping, waste collection services, etc.
It should be noted that in the revision 2 of the NACE code entered into force on 1 January 2008,
cleaning is defined as a sub-sector on its own in section N “Administrative and support service
activities”, class 81.2 “Cleaning activities” which includes:
81.21 “General cleaning of buildings”
81.22 “Other building and industrial cleaning activities”
81.29 “Other cleaning activities”.
However, until January 2008 and in many studies referred to in this report – such as the survey from
the European Federation of Cleaning Industries (EFCI) [1] - “cleaning industry” was understood in
reference to the NACE classification revision 1, section K, division 74, group 74.7: “industrial cleaning