Archive activities

Archive activities include the activities carried out by archival services of all types, with a view to building, storing, classifying, physical or digital archive collections and communicating them to the general public or to a particular category of users This class includes: - activities of public archives providing service to the general public or to a special clientele, such as - students, scientists, staff, members as well as operation of government archives - activities related to the acquisition or collection of archives - activities related to the identification, stocktaking, description and classification of archives - activities related to the safety and maintenance of collections (monitoring of the sanitary status and climatic conditions, safety and security, rehabilitation) - activities related to communication of archives to the public on site or remotely - cultural and pedagogical activities related to the valorisation of archives This class also includes: - archiving of all kind of documents (in paper or electronic form)

This class excludes: - digitisation of files (without any other related activity), see 8210 - digitisation of files (linked to further processing of data), see 6310 - storage of data files, see 6310 - - retail sales of manuscripts, see 4769 - services such as restoration of works of art and museum collection objects and preventive conservation of artworks conducted in-house by units classified in 912, see 912 - restoration of works of art and museum collection objects and preventive conservation of artworks if not conducted by units classified in 912, see 913