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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0722.00006.] \textit{A. Sommese} and \textit{A. Van de Ven} [Math. Ann. 278, 593-603 (1987; Zbl 0655.14001)] and \textit{F. Serrano} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 381, 90-109 (1987; Zbl 0618.14001)] completed the classification of smooth projective surfaces having hyperelliptic hyperplane sections, which was initiated by Castelnuovo at the end of the last century. The paper under review studies smooth projective surfaces with bi-elliptic hyperplane sections and classifies those surfaces under the assumption that the degree is high enough \((\geq 19\) or so). The case of very low degree \((\leq 8)\) is also considered. One of the main tools in the proof is the 3-spannedness version of Reider's method [\textit{M. Beltrametti}, \textit{P. Francia} and \textit{A. J. Sommese} Duke Math. J. 58, No. 2, 425-439 (1989; Zbl 0702.14010)].