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Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) (Text with EEA relevance)

EU Regulation No 2195/2002 · Adopted 5 November 2002 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 5 November 2002

on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 47(2) and Articles 55 and 95 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal by the Commissionf1,

Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committeef2,

Having regard to the Opinion of the Committee of the Regionsf3,

Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treatyf4,

Whereas:

(1)

The use of different classifications is detrimental to the openness and transparency of public procurement in Europe. Its impact on the quality of notices and the time needed to publish them is a de facto restriction on the access of economic operators to public contracts.

(2)

In its Recommendation 96/527/ECf5 the Commission invited contracting entities and authorities to use the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV), developed on the basis of certain existing classifications with a view to gearing them more closely to the particular features of the public procurement sector, when describing the subjects of their contracts.

(3)

There is a need to standardise, by means of a single classification system for public procurement, the references used by the contracting authorities and entities to describe the subject of contracts.

(4)

The Member States need to have a single reference system which uses the same description of goods in the official languages of the Community and the same corresponding alphanumeric code, thus making it possible to overcome the language barriers at Community level.

(5)

A revised version of the CPV therefore needs to be adopted under this Regulation as a single classification system for public procurement, the implementation of which is covered by the Directives on the coordination of procedures for the award of public contracts.

(6)

Illustrative tables must also be drawn up showing the correspondence between the CPV and the Statistical Classification of Products by Activity in the EEC (CPA), the Provisional Central Product Classification (CPC Prov.) of the United Nations, the General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities within the European Communities (NACE Rev. 1) and the Combined Nomenclature (CN).

(7)

The structure and codes of the CPV may need to be adapted or amended, in the light of developments in the markets and users' needs. A suitable revision procedure must therefore be established.

(8)

The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commissionf6.

(9)

Since the objective of the proposed action, namely the drawing up of a classification system for public contracts, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the dimensions and effects of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.

(10)

A Regulation has been chosen rather than a Directive as the establishment of a classification system for public contracts does not require implementation by the Member States.

(11)

With a view to familiarising users with a unified classification system that will eventually be compulsory, the implementation of this CPV Regulation should be preceded by a period of adjustment,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

OJ C 25 E, 29.1.2002, p. 1.

f2

OJ C 48, 21.2.2002, p. 9.

f3

OJ C 192, 12.8.2002, p. 50.

f4

Opinion of the European Parliament of 13 March 2002 (not yet published in the Official Journal), Council Common Position of 7 June 2002 (OJ C 281 E, 19.11.2002, p. 1) and European Parliament Decision of 25 September 2002 (not yet published in the Official Journal).

f5

OJ L 222, 3.9.1996, p. 10.

f6

OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3 Repealed
  4. 4Article 4
  5. Signature
  6. Annex I: COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY
  7. Structure of the classification system
  8. 1Division 1
  9. 2The main vocabulary is based on a tree structure comprising codes of up to nine digits associated with a wording that describes the supplies, works or services forming the subject of the contract.
  10. 3The supplementary vocabulary may be used to expand the description of the subject of a contract. The items are made up of an alphanumeric code with a corresponding wording allowing further details to be added regarding the specific nature or destination of the goods to be purchased.
  11. MAIN VOCABULARY
  12. SUPPLEMENTARY VOCABULARY
  14. Group A: metal and alloy
  15. Group B: non-metal
  17. Group A: form
  18. Group B: shape
  19. Group C: packaging and conditioning
  21. Group A: materials/products with special qualities
  22. Group B: mode of operation
  24. Group A: general and administration attributes
  26. Group A: users or beneficiaries
  28. Group A: educational use
  29. Group B: security use
  30. Group C: waste use
  31. Group D: season use
  32. Group E: postal use
  33. Group F: cleaning use
  34. Group G: other destination use
  36. Group A: dimension and power indication
  37. Group B: frequency
  38. Group C: other indication
  40. Group A: attributes for food, drink and meal
  42. Group A: attributes for construction/works
  44. Group A: attributes for computing, information technology or communication
  46. Group A: attributes for energy and water distribution
  48. Group A: attributes for medical and laboratory
  50. Group A: attributes for designated a type of vehicle
  51. Group B: features of vehicle
  52. Group D: attributes for special transport
  53. Group E: attributes for transport special goods
  54. Group F: with using a vehicle
  56. Group A: renting or hire services
  57. Group B: crew, driver or operator services
  59. Group A: advertising services
  60. Group B: legal advisory services
  62. Group A: medical research
  63. Group B: economic research services
  64. Group C: technology research
  65. Group D: research fields
  67. Group A: banking services
  68. Group B: insurance services
  69. Group C: pension services
  71. Group A: printing services
  73. Group A: retail trade services for food
  74. Group B: retail trade services for non-food
  75. Annex IIAMENDMENTS TO THE CPV CODES OR DESCRIPTIONS OF ANNEX I TO REGULATION (EC) No 2195/2002 Repealed
  76. Annex IIICORRESPONDENCE TABLE BETWEEN CPV AND CPC PROV
  77. Annex IVCORRESPONDENCE TABLE BETWEEN CPV AND NACE REV. 1
  78. Annex VCORRESPONDENCE TABLE BETWEEN CPV AND CN