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)

Article 1

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

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.

ANNEX I

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.

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