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)

• Published date: 16 December 2002
• Official Gazette Publication: Gazzetta ufficiale delle Comunità europee, L 340, 16 dicembre 2002,Diario Oficial de las Comunidades Europeas, L 340, 16 de diciembre de 2002,Journal officiel des Communautés européennes, L 340, 16 décembre 2002

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Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
M1	COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2151/2003 of 16 December 2003	L 329	1	17.12.2003
►M2	COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 213/2008 of 28 November 2007	L 74	1	15.3.2008
►M3	REGULATION (EC) No 596/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 18 June 2009	L 188	14	18.7.2009

Corrected by:

C1 Corrigendum, OJ L 330, 18.12.2003, p. 34 (2151/03)

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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 Commission ( 1 ),

Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee ( 2 ),

Having regard to the Opinion of the Committee of the Regions ( 3 ),

Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty ( 4 ),

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/EC ( 5 ) 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 Commission ( 6 ).

(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:

Article 1

1. A single classification system applicable to public procurement, known as the ‘Common Procurement Vocabulary’ or ‘CPV’ is hereby established.

2. The text of the CPV is set out in Annex I.

3. The illustrative tables 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) are set out in Annexes II, III, IV and V respectively.

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Article 2

The Commission shall adopt the measures necessary for the revision of the CPV. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 3(2). On imperative grounds of urgency, the Commission may have recourse to the urgency procedure referred to in Article 3(3).

Article 3

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee established by Council Decision 71/306/EEC ( 7 ).

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1), (2), (4) and (6) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

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Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 December 2003.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

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ANNEX I

COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY

Structure of the classification system

1. The CPV consists of a main vocabulary and a supplementary vocabulary.

2. The 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.

The numerical code consists of 8 digits, subdivided as follows:

— the first two digits identify the divisions (XX000000-Y),

— the first three digits identify the groups (XXX00000-Y),

— the first four digits identify the classes (XXXX0000-Y),

— the first five digits identify the categories (XXXXX000-Y).

Each of the last three digits gives a greater degree of precision within each category.

A ninth digit serves to verify the previous digits.

3. The 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.

The alphanumeric code is made up of:

— a first level comprising a letter corresponding to a section,

— a second level comprising a letter corresponding to a group,

— a third level comprising three digits corresponding to subdivisions.

The last digit serves to verify the previous digits.

MAIN VOCABULARY

CPV code	Description
03000000-1	Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products
03100000-2	Agricultural and horticultural products
03110000-5	Crops, products of market gardening and horticulture
03111000-2	Seeds
03111100-3	Soya beans
03111200-4	Peanuts
03111300-5	Sunflower seeds
03111400-6	Cotton seeds
03111500-7	Sesame seeds
03111600-8	Mustard seeds
03111700-9	Vegetable seeds
03111800-0	Fruit seeds
03111900-1	Flower seeds
03112000-9	Unmanufactured tobacco
03113000-6	Plants used for sugar manufacturing
03113100-7	Sugar beet
03113200-8	Sugar cane
03114000-3	Straw and forage
03114100-4	Straw
03114200-5	Forage
03115000-0	Raw vegetable materials
03115100-1	Raw vegetable materials used in textile production
03115110-4	Cotton
03115120-7	Jute
03115130-0	Flax
03116000-7	Natural rubber and latex, and associated products
03116100-8	Natural rubber
03116200-9	Natural latex
03116300-0	Latex products
03117000-4	Plants used in specific fields
03117100-5	Plants used in perfumery or pharmacy, or for insecticidal or similar purposes
03117110-8	Plants used in perfumery
03117120-1	Plants used in pharmacy
03117130-4	Plants used for insecticidal purposes
03117140-7	Plants used for fungicidal or similar purposes
03117200-6	Seeds of plants used in specific fields
03120000-8	Horticultural and nursery products
03121000-5	Horticultural products
03121100-6	Live plants, bulbs, roots, cuttings and slips
03121200-7	Cut flowers
03121210-0	Floral arrangements
03130000-1	Beverage and spice crops
03131000-8	Beverage crops
03131100-9	Coffee beans
03131200-0	Tea bushes
03131300-1	Maté
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