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)
Modified by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2151/2003of 16 December 2003amending Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)(Text with EEA relevance)
Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2151/2003 of 16 December 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the common procurement vocabulary (CPV)(Official Journal of the European Union L 329 of 17 December 2003), 303R2151303R2151R(01), December 17, 2003
Commission Regulation (EC) No 213/2008of 28 November 2007amending Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) and Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on public procurement procedures, as regards the revision of the CPV(Text with EEA relevance), 308R0213, March 15, 2008
Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 18 June 2009adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutinyAdaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Four, 309R0596, July 18, 2009
Corrected by
Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2151/2003 of 16 December 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the common procurement vocabulary (CPV), 303R2151R(01), December 18, 2003
Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 5 November 2002on 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 CommissionOJ C 25 E, 29.1.2002, p. 1.,Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social CommitteeOJ C 48, 21.2.2002, p. 9.,Having regard to the Opinion of the Committee of the RegionsOJ C 192, 12.8.2002, p. 50.,Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the TreatyOpinion 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).,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/ECOJ L 222, 3.9.1996, p. 10. 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 CommissionOJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23..(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: