{"title":"Time registers and the like; parking meters market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/387-time-registers-and-the-like-parking-meters","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"387","label":"Time registers and the like; parking meters"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 134 supply contracts for time registers and the like; parking meters through award notices on TED; the 125 of them that state a value (93.3%) add up to €9.34 million. EU countries together imported €271 million of goods in the customs headings matched to time registers and the like; parking meters in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9107 and 9106; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 1.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 81 companies have won 493 public supply contracts for time registers and the like; parking meters in 30 European countries, in 470 award notices from 106 public buyers.","0.4% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Italy.","The five companies that win most often hold 68.6% of all awards across Europe.","19.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":493,"awardNotices":470,"winningCompanies":81,"publicBuyers":106,"awardsWithValue":462,"awardedValueEur":76350251,"localAwards":491,"foreignAwards":2,"top5Share":0.6855983772819473,"singleBidAwards":95,"awardsWithKnownBids":482,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":2,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":69582},{"year":2024,"awards":52,"awardNotices":40,"awardsWithValue":42,"awardedValueEur":36722329},{"year":2025,"awards":134,"awardNotices":132,"awardsWithValue":125,"awardedValueEur":9336092},{"year":2026,"awards":305,"awardNotices":296,"awardsWithValue":294,"awardedValueEur":30222247}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9107","label":"Time switches with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor"},{"hs4":"9106","label":"Time of day recording apparatus and apparatus for measuring, recording or otherwise indicating intervals of time, with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor, e.g. time-registers and time recorders (excl. clocks of heading 9101 to 9105)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":274641130},{"year":2024,"valueEur":273606691},{"year":2025,"valueEur":270652830}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% 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":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"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":[],"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, \"Time registers and the like; parking meters market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/387-time-registers-and-the-like-parking-meters, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}