Sustainable Procurement Platform

Sustainable Procurement Platform

Sustainable Procurement Platform

Procura+ Seminar 2025

On 9 & 10 October, the Procura+ community gathered in the Province of Zeeland for a seminar highlighting how public procurement can help public authorities accelerate and scale up social, sustainable, innovative and circular policies

New guidance document on circular procurement in cities

The guide outlines how circular considerations can be embedded into existing public procurement procedures, and lists circular criteria that have been used in tenders

Opportunity: two new EIC Innovation Procurement Programme opportunities

Two major European Innovation Council (EIC) projects, SPIN4EIC and InnoMatch, are offering the last calls for public administrations to strengthen their innovation procurement efforts

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT NEWS

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New guide outlines methods to prevent human rights abuses in global supply chains

The Norwegian Government has prepared a guide to ensuring human rights are respected within supply chains, providing practical information for enterprises on avoiding rights violations, and rectifying...

ICLEI joins council of sustainable procurement leaders

ICLEI has partnered with the new Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organisation which aims to solve the biggest obstacle to sustainable institu...

Provisional agreement reached on revised Public Procurement Directives

On 26 June 2013 the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement on the revision of the EU Public Procurement Directives (the ‘classic’ and the ‘utilities’ directives). The agreeme...

German National Competence Centre for SPP goes public

To make public procurement in Germany greener, more socially sustainable and economically advantageous, the German Procurement Agency of the Federal Ministry of the Interior has launched the Kompetenz...

UK government to use GPP to help meet sustainable development goals

Green Public Procurement (GPP) will form a major component of the UK government’s new sustainable development plan for the country, according to a document recently released by the Department for th...

Blue Angel eco-label celebrates 35 years

This year the Blue Angel, the German-wide label that identifies environmentally friendly products, celebrates its 35th anniversary. The label helped the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundes...

Nordic countries embrace GPP as means to spur green growth, innovation

Nordic Prime Ministers have identified GPP as an essential means to encourage green growth, citing that public procurement of goods and services in the region amounts to 16 - 20 percent of GDP. In an ...

Recycled materials save US authorities billions in road construction

Sustainable highway and road construction practices saved US authorities billions of dollars and an estimated 21.2 million barrels of virgin liquid asphalt binder in 2011, according to a recent survey...

EC consults stakeholders on effectiveness of energy label and ecodesign directives

The European Commission has started an evaluation process to determine the effectiveness of the Energy Labelling Directive and specific aspects of the Ecodesign Directive. The evaluation will provide ...

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