There is a difference between business key and surrogate key concepts. Usually, ID means an immutable identifier (surrogate key), which has no business meaning. At the database level a corresponding column would be a primary key, so that it could be referenced by foreign keys in other tables to ensure referential integrity. Entity properties that model ID are often of type Long.
Its value is assigned once and never changed.
The business key could consists of one or more entity properties (and thus columns), which can be mutable.
The provided in the question snippet suggests that field code
(should be private) is a business key. So, it can be changed as required. Although the entity type is missing an ID field.