Activities of professional membership organizations

This class includes: - activities of membership organizations, such as medical, legal, accounting, technical, architectural and other associations, the interests of whose members are concentrated mainly in a particular academic field, in a particular field of professional practice or in a technical field - associations of professionals engaged in applied and theoretical sciences, in the fields of culture, such as writers, artists, actors, journalists, etc. - dissemination of information, establishment of standards for the evaluation of professional practice and control of their application, representation in relations with government institutions, establishment of public relations - activities of learned societies. Excludes: - teaching activities of the above organizations, see division 85