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The 2014.09 CPC Scheme is now in force

1 September 2014 As announced, the 2014.09 version of the CPC scheme which was pre-released on 5 August 2014 is now in force.

Pre-release of the 2014-09 products now available

5 August 2014 As of today the material concerning the September 2014 CPC scheme version (2014-09) is available via the "Pre-release" area of the website.

The 2014.07 CPC Scheme is now in force

1 July 2014 As announced, the 2014.07 version of the CPC scheme which was pre-released on 3 June 2014 is now in force.

List of fields for Combination Sets

3 June 2014

Pre-release of the 2014-07 products now available

3 June 2014 As of today the material concerning the July 2014 CPC scheme version (2014-07) is available via the "Pre-release" area of the website.

Discontinuation of the interleaved presentation

1 June 2014

The 2014.06 CPC Scheme is now in force

1 June 2014 As announced, the 2014.06 version of the CPC scheme which was pre-released on 6 May 2014 is now in force.

Pre-release area now available

6 May 2014 As of today, a "Pre-release" area is available on the www.cpcinfo.org website under the following link.

February 2014 scheme available

12 March 2014 The February version (2014.02) of the CPC scheme is now available. For a complete list of the changes please refer to the "Notice of Changes" (also known as Classification orders).

NoC 13 and 14 corrected

12 March 2014 Due to a technical problem in our systems, some errors were introduced in the Notice of Changes 13 and 14 related with the CPC Scheme 2014-02, which were published in January 2014. The corrected NoCs 13 and 14 are now available.