Trade register activity codes
Every commercial activity has a six-digit code in the nomenclature set by Executive Decree no. 15-249: 2,136 codes in 7 sectors. Search for your activity to see if it is unrestricted, regulated or blocked.
Source: CNRC nomenclature of economic activities, UpGrowth open data, CC BY 4.0 licence, updated 1 October 2026. English labels come from the dataset and are not official. The status is the one in the nomenclature: it does not replace each activity's own text. upgrowth.dz
Sectors and their groups
The first digit of a code gives the sector, the first three the group. The decree publishes no group names, so each group goes by its number.
1Production of goods452 codes
2Craft production businesses81 codes
3Wholesale distribution185 codes
4Import for resale as is278 codes
- Group 42028 codes
- Group 4212 codes
- Group 42224 codes
- Group 4232 codes
- Group 4243 codes
- Group 4252 codes
- Group 42617 codes
- Group 4277 codes
- Group 42818 codes
- Group 4294 codes
- Group 4305 codes
- Group 4315 codes
- Group 43211 codes
- Group 43312 codes
- Group 43412 codes
- Group 4356 codes
- Group 4363 codes
- Group 43720 codes
- Group 4384 codes
- Group 4394 codes
- Group 44015 codes
- Group 4417 codes
- Group 4425 codes
- Group 4433 codes
- Group 4442 codes
- Group 44520 codes
- Group 4462 codes
- Group 4474 codes
- Group 44816 codes
- Group 4493 codes
- Group 45012 codes
5Retail distribution (fixed and mobile)365 codes
6Services754 codes
- Group 60142 codes
- Group 60229 codes
- Group 60322 codes
- Group 60479 codes
- Group 60553 codes
- Group 60626 codes
- Group 60788 codes
- Group 6087 codes
- Group 6094 codes
- Group 61012 codes
- Group 61121 codes
- Group 61223 codes
- Group 61394 codes
- Group 6149 codes
- Group 615150 codes
- Group 6165 codes
- Group 61742 codes
- Group 61839 codes
- Group 6199 codes
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