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NACE 43.13: Test drilling and boring

NACE Rev. 2.1 class. Replaces NACE Rev. 2 43.13. Closest ISIC Rev. 4: 4312.

NACE Rev. 2.1 class 43.13 is "Test drilling and boring". It sits in section F (CONSTRUCTION), then division 43 (Specialised construction activities), then group 43.1 (Demolition and site preparation). In the previous classification, NACE Rev. 2, the activity was covered by 43.13 (Test drilling and boring).

What the class includes

This class includes: - test drilling, test boring and core sampling for construction, geophysical, geological or similar purposes

What it excludes

This class excludes: - drilling of production oil or gas wells, see 06.10, 06.20 - test drilling, associated with extraction of petroleum or gas, see 09.10 - test drilling and boring support services (e.g. associated with mining activities), see 09.90 - water well drilling, see 42.21 - geothermal drilling, see 42.21 - shaft sinking, see 43.50 - exploration of oilfields and gas fields, geophysical, geological and seismic surveying, see 71.12

Correspondence with NACE Rev. 2

NACE Rev. 2Label (Rev. 2)Also maps to
43.13Test drilling and boring-

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Neighbouring classes

43.11 Demolition · 43.12 Site preparation

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Official classification texts from EU Vocabularies (Publications Office of the European Union, CC BY 4.0), read on 2026-10-05. Correspondence tables link classes that cover the same activities; one old class can be split across several new ones, so check the notes before you convert a dataset. Information only.