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Enhancing Sustainability through Green Public Procurement: Strategies and Policies

This document outlines the importance and framework of Green Public Procurement (GPP) as a crucial strategy to mitigate unsustainable consumption and its detrimental impacts on the environment and public health. It emphasizes the need for smarter consumption and reduced environmental footprints within the public sector, while promoting better products and services. Key milestones and specific objectives for GPP implementation are detailed, including the establishment of common criteria for priority product groups and strategies to foster political support and operational guidance for public authorities.

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Enhancing Sustainability through Green Public Procurement: Strategies and Policies

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  1. EU GPP policy Alenka Burja DG Environment G2 Environment and Industry Bilbao, 23rd June 2009

  2. Green Public Procurement - GPP • Why GPP? • Policy framework of GPP

  3. Why GPP? Unsustainable consumption and production seriously impact the environment and human health

  4. Main Environmental Impacts • 70-80% of environmental impacts: * transport * food & drink * housing

  5. Natural resources SCP: Better Products Waste & Recycling SCP: Leaner Production SCP: Smarter Consumption Life Cycle Approach

  6. GPP - SmarterConsumption • reduce environmental impacts (footprint) of public sector • trigger production of better products and services • boost competitiveness of industry (new markets, jobs, innovation and new technologies) • conserve natural resources • assure healthier working condictions • save public money

  7. GPP Milestones • Communication on IPP, 2003 • New legal framework for Public Procurement, 2004 • Renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy, 2006 • Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy Action Plan, 2008 • Communication on GPP

  8. Communication on Public Procurement for a Better Environment Political target: 50 % of tendering procedures to be green by 2010 Specific objectives: • a process for setting common GPP criteria for 10 priority products/services • guidance: GPP Training Toolkit • information on life cycle costing (LCC) • develop indicators for monitoring

  9. GPP Guidance Module 1 (strategic): provides methodology to develop a GPP Action plan, aims at raising political support Module 2 (legal): gives clear examples of how and where to integrate environmental criteria into the public procurement tendering procedure(subject matter, technical specifications, selection and award criteria, contract performance clauses) Module 3 (operational): contains detailed examples of criteria for 10 product/service groups

  10. GPP Training Toolkit Construction Electricity Cleaning products and services Textiles Food and catering services Furniture Office IT equipment Paper Gardening products and services Transport • Core criteria: address the key environmental impacts • Comprehensive criteria: to purchase the best environmental products available on the market. - Based on Type I ecolabel criteria, but any proof can be accepted - Internal and external stakeholder consultations

  11. Status in Member States • The latest study demonstrates that 7 MS (UK, DK, FI, NL, AU, DE, SE) have on average 45 % of the total value and 55 % of the total number of contracts in 2006/07 – green. • Analysis also points out that there is on average 1% decrease of costs when using GPP (LCC approach), and 25 % decrease of CO2 emissions.

  12. Ongoing activities • endorsement of common GPP criteria in national action plans • promote awareness and training on GPP • develop new GPP criteria based on existing frameworks for environmental criteria (Ecolabel, Eco-design benchmarks), finalise 10 criteria • raise support for GPP by linking it to other environmental policies • disseminate information on LCC • dialogue with stakeholders

  13. Mandatory GPP requirements Energy Star Regulation(2008) => obliges central governments and EU institutions Energy end-use efficiency and energy services Directive (2006)=> exemplary role for public sector Directive on the promotion of clean & energy efficient road transport vehicles(2009) => obliges public authorities and public service providers)

  14. Future mandatory GPP requirements Energy Labelling Directive => mandatory performance levels Energy Performance in Buildings Directive => exemplary role EU Ecolabel Regulation=> Manual for authorities awarding public contracts

  15. European Commission Environment Directorate-General DirectorateG – Sustainable development and integration Unit G 2 – Environment and Industry Thank you http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/index_en.htm

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