Activites

• 2002/12/16 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2002/2195
  • OJ L 340 16.12.2002, p. 0001-0562
• 2002/11/05 Final act signed
• 2002/11/05 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2002/09/25 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0437/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the resolution drafted by Stefano ZAPPALA (EPP-ED, Italy) and approved the Council's common position.�

• 2002/09/10 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0282/2002
• 2002/06/13 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• 2002/06/07 Council position published
  • 08171/1/2002 summary

    The common position fully endorses the objectives of the proposal, that is, to simplify the existing nomenclature and to facilitate the work of both contracting authorities and economic operators. The flexible mechanism integrated to include future modifications has been approved as being entirely appropriate. This way, any possible shortcomings in details, which cannot be excluded from the outset (given the detailed classification of goods on more than 250 pages) will be efficiently accommodated. With regard to the articles, the Council only integrated some minor modifications, predominantly the standard wording of the article for the comitology procedure, which is a purely editorial point, and a longer time period for the transposition of the CPV. The latter modification was justified in order to facilitate even further the application of CPV in the future.�

• #2433
• 2002/06/06 Council Meeting
• 2002/03/13 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0098/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV). (Procedure without report).�

• #2412
• 2002/03/01 Council Meeting
  • 2412
• 2002/02/19 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2001/09/03 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2001/08/03 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2001)0449 summary

    PURPOSE: To create a legal basis for the classification of a Common Procurement Vocabulary (CVP). CONTENT: The Common Procurement Vocabulary (CVP) was established with a view to simplifying the process of publishing contract notices. It consists of a main vocabulary for defining the subject of a contract and a supplementary vocabulary for adding further qualitative information. The main vocabulary is based on a five-level hierarchical structure, while the supplementary vocabulary has two levels. A wording describing the supplies, works or service in all the official languages is associated with each code. The CPV has been systematically used since 1996 in all contract notices published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities for identifying the subject of contracts and for automatic translation into the other official languages of the Community. The proposed Regulation aims to streamline public procurement speak under one heading namely the CVP. Currently there are a number of other classification systems in use such as CPA, NACE, CPC Prov.and CN (Combined Nomenclature). The advantage of a single multilingual classification system would enable economic operators to identify the contracts they are interested in with greater accuracy, thus giving them easier access to public contracts. Further, the CPV will enable the summaries of the contract notices to be translated automatically thus reducing the scope for errors. Costs could also be cut. The main aim of this Regulation is to give legal definition to the CPV. The Regulation will establish definitions for classifying public contracts and establish procedures for maintaining and revising it. Importantly, a revision procedure is foreseen as part of the implementation powers assigned to the Commission. In this regard the Commission will be assisted by the Advisory Committee on Public Contracts. Any changes or updates will be based largely on suggestions and comments made by the direct users of the CPV.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/internal_market/', 'title': 'Internal Market and Services'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0449
• Debate in Council: 2412
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0098/2002
• Council position published: 08171/1/2002
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0282/2002
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0437/2002
• : Regulation 2002/2195
• : OJ L 340 16.12.2002, p. 0001-0562

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)