SECTION A HUMAN NECESSITIES

Subsection AGRICOLTURE

A 01	Agriculture; forestry; animal husbandry; hunting; trapping; fishing.

Subsection FOODSTUFFS; TOBACCO

A 21	Baking; edible doughs;
A 22	Butchering; meat treatment; processing poultry or fish;
A 23	Foods or foodstuffs; their treatment, not covered by other classes;
A 24	Tobacco; cigars; cigarettes; smokers' requisites.

Subsection PERSONAL OR DOMESTIC ARTICLES

A 41	Wearing apparel;
A 42	Headwear;
A 43	Footwear;
A 44	Haberdashery; jewellery;
A 45	Hand or travelling articles;
A 46	Brushware;
A 47	Furniture; domestic articles or appliances; coffee mills; spice mills; suction cleaners in general.

Subsection HEALTH; AMUSEMENT

A 61	Medical or veterinary science; hygiene;
A 62	Life-saving; fire-fighting;
A 63	Sports; games; amusements.

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SECTION B PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

Subsection SEPARATING; MIXING

B 01	Physical or chemical processes or apparatus in general;
B 02	Crushing, pulverising, or disintegrating; preparatory treatment of grain for milling;
B 03	Separation of solid materials using liquids or using pneumatic tables or jigs; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids; separation by high-voltage electric fields;
B 04	Centrifugal apparatus or machines for carrying-out physical or chemical processes;
B 05	Spraying or atomising in general; applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces, in general;
B 06	Generating or transmitting mechanical vibrations in general;
B 07	Separating solids from solids; sorting;
B 08	Cleaning;
B 09	Disposal of solid waste; reclamation of contaminated soil.

Subsection SHAPING

B 21	Mechanical metal-working without essentially removing material; punching metal;
B 22	Casting; powder metallurgy;
B 23	Machine tools; metal-working not otherwise provided for;
B 24	Grinding; polishing;
B 25	Hand tools; portable power-driven tools; handles for hand implements; workshop equipment; manipulators;
B 26	Hand cutting tools; cutting; severing;
B 27	Working or preserving wood or similar material; nailing or stapling machines in general;
B 28	Working cement, clay, or stone;
B 29	Working of plastics; working of substances in a plastic state in general;
B 30	Presses;
B 31	Making paper articles; working paper;
B 32	Layered products.

Subsection PRINTING

B 41	Printing; lining machines; typewriters; stamps;
B 42	Bookbinding; albums; files; special printed matter;
B 43	Writing or drawing implements; bureau accessories;
B 44	Decorative arts.

Subsection TRANSPORTING

B 60	Vehicles in general;
B 61	Railways;
B 62	Land vehicles for travelling otherwise than on rails;
B 63	Ships or other waterborne vessels; related equipment;
B 64	Aircraft; aviation; cosmonautics;
B 65	Conveying; packing; storing; handling thin or filamentary material;
B 66	Hoisting; lifting; hauling;
B 67	Opening or closing bottles, jars or similar containers; liquid handling;
B 68	Saddlery; upholstery.

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SECTION C CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY

Subsection CHEMISTRY

C 01	Inorganic chemistry;
C 02	Treatment of water, waste water, sewage, or sludge;
C 03	Glass; mineral or slag wool;
C 04	Cements; concrete; artificial stone; ceramics; refractories;
C 05	Fertilisers; manufacture thereof;
C 06	Explosives; matches;
C 07	Organic chemistry;
C 08	Organic macromolecular compounds; their preparations or chemical working-up; compositions based thereon;
C 09	Dyes; paints; polishes; natural resins; adhesives; miscellaneous compositions; miscellaneous applications of materials;
C 10	Petroleum, gas or coke industries; technical gases containing carbon monoxide; fuels; lubricants; peat;
C 11	Animal or vegetable oils, fats, fatty substances or waxes; fatty acids therefrom; detergents; candles;
C 12	Biochemistry; beer; spirits; wine; vinegar; microbiology; enzymology; mutation or genetic engineering;
C 13	Sugar industry;
C 14	Skins; hides; pelts; leather.

Subsection METALLURGY

C 21	Metallurgy of iron;
C 22	Metallurgy; ferrous or non-ferrous alloys; treatment of alloys or non-ferrous metals;
C 23	Coating metallic material; coating material with metallic material; chemical surface treatment; diffusion treatment of metallic material; coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in general; inhibiting corrosion of metallic material or incrustation in general;
C 25	Electrolytic or electrophoretic processes; apparatus therefor;
C 30	Crystal growth.

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SECTION D TEXTILES; PAPER

Subsection TEXTILES OR FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

D 01	Natural or artificial threads or fibres; spinning;
D 02	Yarns; mechanical finishing of yarns or ropes; warping or beaming;
D 03	Weaving;
D 04	Braiding; lace-making; knitting; trimmings; non-woven fabrics;
D 05	Sewing; embroidering; tufting;
D 06	Treatment of textiles or the like; laundering; flexible materials not otherwise provided for;
D 07	Ropes; cables other than electric.

Subsection PAPER

D 21	Paper-making; production of cellulose.

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SECTION E FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS

Subsection BUILDING

E 01	Construction of roads, railways, or bridges;
E 02	Hydraulic engineering; foundations; soil-shifting;
E 03	Water supply; sewerage;
E 04	Building;
E 05	Locks; Keys; Window or door fittings; safes;
E 06	Doors, windows, shutters, or roller blinds, in general; ladders.

Subsection EARTH DRILLING; MINING

E 21	Earth drilling; mining.

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SECTION F MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING

Subsection MOTORI O POMPE

F 01	Machines or engines in general; engine plants in general; steam engines;
F 02	Combustion engines; hot-gas or combustion-product engine plants;
F 03	Machines or engines for liquids; wind, spring, weight, or miscellaneous motors; producing mechanical power or a reactive propulsive thrust, not otherwise provided for;
F 04	Positive-displacement machines for liquids; pumps for liquids or elastic fluids.

Subsection ENGINEERING IN GENERAL

F 15	Fluid-pressure actuators; hydraulics or pneumatics in general;
F 16	Engineering elements or units; general measures for producing and maintaining effective functioning of machines or installations; thermal insulation in general;
F 17	Storing or distributing gases or liquids.

Subsection LIGHTING; HEATING

F 21	Lighting;
F 22	Steam generation;
F 23	Combustion apparatus; combustion processes;
F 24	Heating; ranges; ventilating;
F 25	Refrigeration or cooling; combined heating and refrigeration system; heat pumps systems; manufacture or storage of ice; liquefaction or solidification of gases;
F 26	Drying;
F 27	Furnaces; kilns; ovens; retorts;
F 28	Heat exchange in general.

Subsection WEAPONS; BLASTING

F 41	Weapons;
F 42	Ammunition; Blasting.

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SECTION G PHYSICS

Subsection INSTRUMENTS

G 01	Measuring; testing;
G 02	Optics;
G 03	Photography; cinematography; analogous techniques using waves other than optical waves; electrography; holography;
G 04	Horology
G 05	Controlling; regulating;
G 06	Computing; calculating; counting;
G 07	Checking-devices;
G 08	Signalling
G 09	Educating; cryptography; display; advertising; seals;
G 10	Musical instruments; acoustics;
G 11	Information storage;
G 12	Instrument details.

Subsection NUCLEONICS

G 21	Nuclear physics; nuclear engineering.

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SECTION H ELECTRICITY

H 01	Basic electric elements;
H 02	Generation, conversion, or distribution of electric power;
H 03	Basic electronic circuitry;
H 04	Electric communication technique;
H 05	Electric techniques not otherwise provided for.