GPP Case Study: The Romanian Ministry of Environment and the National Agency for Public Procurement have provided guidelines for procurers by defining a number of criteria that can be applied by public authorities. The criteria aim to reduce GHG emissions and the environmental impact of the goods and services procured.

ICLEI works together with the Belgian Federal Institute for Sustainable Development (FISD) to support public buyers to help create better working conditions and protect the rights of workers and communities through ethical purchasing practices. The working groups runs throughout 2021, with the aim to create a space for leading big public buyers to exchange, take stock, discuss and identify actions towards a next-generation ethical procurement of IT.

COACH is a three-years EU-funded project which aims at facilitating collaboration between farmers, consumers, local governments and other actors to scale up short agri-food chains which rebalance farmers’ position, create win-wins for producers and consumers and drive innovation in territorial food systems. Besides other activities, the project collects a series of emblematic good practice examples from 12 countries which demonstrate how farmers can access consumer-driven opportunities to improve their incomes and rebalance their position in food chains and creates a ‘living library’. Moreover, COACH designs a ‘farm-to-fork procurement toolkit’ for public authorities in order to improve sharing of experience and help them design appropriate tenders for healthy and fresh food supplied by small-scale producers and also to support farmers to know how to access these opportunities.

Video on circular procurement pilots conducted in Latvia as part of the Circular PP project.

Video on pilot project to extend the lifetime of ICT products in Municipality of Aalborg (Denmark)

Results and lessons learned from a circular furniture procurement pilot in Malmö (Sweden).

Between 2017 and 2020, Aalborg (Denmark, Malmö (Sweden), and Smiltene and Pļaviņas (Latvia) piloted innovative new approaches to buying circular goods and services as part of the Circular PP project. Their experiences have been collected in this report, which provides a highly useful guide for any other public buyers interested in trying out circular procurement. A summary version is also available.

This Implementation Plan is the collective vision of the GLA Group’s Functional Bodies, supported by the GLA Group Central Responsible Procurement Team (CRPT). This document has been developed in collaboration with key stakeholders from these organisations. It sets out shared ambitions and common aspirations, while allowing some organisations to exceed these and share best practice in specific RP Policy areas.

This report includes a vision and strategy for circular procurement of office furniture.