Workers in this major group comprise persons who as elected or appointed members of national, state, provincial or local governments are mainly occupied in deciding or participating in formulating governmental policy and in making and amending laws and official regulations, together with those who, as government administrators, organise and direct the interpretation and execution of governmental policy and those who, as directors and managers, plan, organise, co-ordinate and direct the activities of private or public enterprises, or organisations, or one or more of their departments (with certain exceptions: see definitions below).