BAKGRUNN (fra kommisjonsforordningen, engelsk utgave)

1) Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 established a single classification system applicable to public procurement to standardise the references used by contracting authorities and entities to describe the subject matter of their contracts.

(2) 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.

(3) The structure and codes of the CPV should be updated to take account of specific needs expressed by Member States and by users of the CPV and to correct material errors that were detected in the various linguistic versions.

(4) Technical adjustments and improvements, which were identified during the legislative process leading to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 but which could not be taken into account in that Regulation, should be introduced in the Annexes to that Regulation.

(5) In its opinion on the proposal for a Regulation on the CPV the Committee of the Regions pointed out that the classification of medicines required improvement and recommended the use of the "Anatomic Therapeutic Chemical" (ATC) classification system drawn up by the World Health Organisation to complete the CPV structure and codes for medicinal products.

(6) Interested parties and CPV users made specific suggestions for improvements of the CPV.

(7) The update of the CPV codes and structure should be reflected in the illustrative tables showing the correspondence between the CPV and 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).

(8) In the interest of clarity, the CPV should be replaced entirely as well as the correspondence table between the CPV and the CPC Prov. All amendments to the CPV codes or their descriptions should be listed in a separate new Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002.

(9) The entry into force of Commission Regulation (EC) No 204/2002 of 19 December 2001 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 on the statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) in the European Economic Community has rendered obsolete the information given in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002, which shows the correspondence between the CPV and the CPA 96.

(10) In Common Position (EC) No 33/2003 of 20 March 2003 adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contract and Common Position (EC) No 34/2003 of 20 March 2003 adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a directive of the European Parliament and the Council coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors, product areas are not established by means of reference to the statistical classification of products by activity (CPA).

(11) For those reasons, it is not appropriate to update the correspondence table between the CPV and the CPA 96 set out in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002. That Annex should therefore be deleted.

(12) Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(13) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Advisory Committee on Public Procurement