Environmental Technologies
Green public procurement
Public procurement – how the public sector meets its needs for goods, services, works and other supplies – is a major driver in stimulating the market, amounting to 16% of the EU’s GDP.
Green public procurement (GPP) involves embedding environmental considerations into spending and investment decisions across the public sector.
The ETAP encourages the use of public procurement practices that take account of environmental performance and life-cycle costing, and that set clear eco-standards to expand market opportunities and drive innovation.
The UK is leading work on GPP under the ETAP. This links with the work of the UK Sustainable Procurement Task Force in the UK.
As part of the UK’s EU Presidency, an event was held in London in October 2005 to discuss the results of an EC-funded study to measure existing levels of GPP across the EU and look at best practice.
A second phase of the work, to define and disseminate existing EU best practice, will report at an event in Spring 2006, hosted by the Austrian EU Presidency.
Page last modified: 9 January 2006
Page published: 30 April
2004