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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Good Practice in Socially Responsible Procurement

The LANDMARK project has published a new document containing good practice approaches to verifying Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP), taken from across Europe. This collection of current ...

EC to propose carbon label based on current energy grading system

The European Commission is likely to propose a carbon dioxide emissions label similar to that of the current energy efficiency label, according to a report by Euractiv.com. The label will take into ac...

Energy Efficiency Directive agreed upon at EU negotiations

The Energy Efficiency Directive, which sets out binding energy legislation for EU member states, has been agreed upon by the European Parliament, Commission and Council. Although the measures put in p...

ClientEarth pushes for clarity on “life-cycle characteristics”

In an effort to get the European Commission to adopt a clearer definition of “life-cycle characteristics”, ClientEarth, a non-profit environmental law organisation, has released a document outlini...

Sustainable procurement initiative aims to increase public spending on sustainable goods and services

A new international initiative to fast track a global transition to a green economy by harnessing the power of government and local authority spending was announced at Rio+20 last week by the UN Envir...

Korea green procurement programme presented at Rio+20

The Republic of Korea presented its green growth policies and experiences at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development this week, placing particular emphasis on the country’s green procure...

United Nations uses purchasing power to enhance sustainability

In order to lead by example the United Nations has undertaken a concerted effort to improve the sustainability of the organisation. The UN is not only taking measures such as opting for more sustainab...

Majority of UK local authorities lack legal and sustainable timber procurement policy - WWF report

More than half of UK local authorities still don't have a legal and sustainable timber procurement policy according to a recent report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) into public sector timber...

Energy label speeds up development of efficient televisions

In the past two years the energy consumption of the most efficient televisions has been reduced by 50 percent, moving from class A to A++. This improvement in efficiency has been prompted by the take ...

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