06 Nov Revised CPV codes

The Project continuously supports the Serbian institutions in preparation of the new public procurement legal framework.

Provisions of the new Public Procurement Law must be completed by a number of implementing regulations. One of them is the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV).

The new draft Public Procurement Law defines the CPV as single classification system for subjects of public procurement, applicable in public procurement procedures, which at the same time ensures conformity with other existing classifications. Furthermore, for the description of the subject-matter of procurement in the public procurement notices, contracting authority/entity shall use codes referred to in CPV. Finally, the Public Procurement Office (PPO) establishes the CPV, in accordance with the corresponding European Union’s vocabulary.

With a view of assisting the PPO in preparation of the CPV codes the Project undertook activities of checking, revising and up – dating, where this was necessary, the current Serbian on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (the Government’s regulation on CPV adopted in 2014), to make it compliant with the relevant EU CPV, adopted by Regulation (EC) No. 213/2008.

The document with revised CPV codes prepared by the Project can be downloaded here.

It has to be noted that this document is published for informational purposes only and it does not represent the official Common Procurement Vocabulary which needs to be established by the PPO in the form of secondary legislation pursuant to the new PPL, once it will enter into force.