{"title":"Motor vehicles market in Cyprus","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/cy/341-motor-vehicles","scope":"Cyprus","category":{"cpvGroup":"341","label":"Motor vehicles"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Cyprus awarded 41 supply contracts for motor vehicles through award notices on TED; the 40 of them that state a value (97.6%) add up to €33.9 million. Cyprus imported €870 million of goods in the customs headings matched to motor vehicles in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8703, 8704, 8702 and 8705; all buyers, not only public ones), up 1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 30 companies have won 101 public supply contracts for motor vehicles in Cyprus, in 89 award notices from 22 public buyers.","96% of these awards went to companies registered in Cyprus; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 51.5% of all awards.","26% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":101,"awardNotices":89,"winningCompanies":30,"publicBuyers":22,"awardsWithValue":96,"awardedValueEur":70179392,"localAwards":97,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.5148514851485149,"singleBidAwards":13,"awardsWithKnownBids":50,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":30,"awardNotices":27,"awardsWithValue":26,"awardedValueEur":17782881},{"year":2025,"awards":41,"awardNotices":39,"awardsWithValue":40,"awardedValueEur":33900240},{"year":2026,"awards":30,"awardNotices":23,"awardsWithValue":30,"awardedValueEur":18496270}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8703","label":"Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars (excl. motor vehicles of heading 8702)"},{"hs4":"8704","label":"Motor vehicles for the transport of goods, incl. chassis with engine and cab"},{"hs4":"8702","label":"Motor vehicles for the transport of >= 10 persons, incl. driver"},{"hs4":"8705","label":"Special purpose motor vehicles (other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods), e.g. breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops and mobile radiological units"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":861390908},{"year":2024,"valueEur":806399292},{"year":2025,"valueEur":869685316}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Cyprus — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €3.96 billion in 2025, 10.3% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":3958000000,"percentOfGdp":10.3,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":27.2,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[{"text":"ACEA counts 38,238 new buses registered in the EU in 2025, up 7.5% on 2024; electrically chargeable buses were 23.8% of them.","source":"ACEA, New commercial vehicle registrations: vans -8.8%, trucks -6.2%, buses +7.5% in 2025","url":"https://www.acea.auto/cv-registrations/new-commercial-vehicle-registrations-vans-8-8-trucks-6-2-buses-7-5-in-2025/","referenceYear":2025},{"text":"EU manufacturers sold 23,139 buses and coaches worth €6.25 billion in 2024 (Eurostat PRODCOM).","source":"Eurostat, Sold production, exports and imports (PRODCOM, DS-059358)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-059358?lang=en&product=29103000&reporter=EU27_2020&indicators=PRODVAL&indicators=PRODQNT&indicators=PVALFLAG&time=2024","referenceYear":2024},{"text":"Under the Clean Vehicles Directive, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and other western Member States must make 65% of the buses they procure in 2026–2030 clean, half of the target through zero-emission buses; the targets are lower in central and eastern Europe (for example Poland 46%, Czechia 60%, Hungary 53%, Croatia 38%).","source":"European Commission (DG MOVE), Clean Vehicles Directive","url":"https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/clean-transport/clean-and-energy-efficient-vehicles/clean-vehicles-directive_en","referenceYear":"2021–2030"}],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Motor vehicles market in Cyprus\", https://cresques.com/markets/cy/341-motor-vehicles, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}