Institutions and facilities of the City of Vienna use more than 400 tonnes of disinfectants annually. In order to assist with the identification and assessment of hazardous substances associated with different types of commercially available disinfectants, this group created the Viennese Database for Disinfectants: WIDES.

GNM’s (National Environmental Guard) first green purchase was arranged in a challenging national GPP context. Romania is one of the few EU countries which does not have a national action plan on GPP in place. However, one is currently being developed by the Ministry of Environment, with the support of the Fondazione Ecosistemi and the National Authority of Public Procurement.

Denmark has recently introduced a new school reform, which recognises the importance of differentiated learning environments for facilitating inclusion, well-being and improved learning. As a result, schools are looking for classroom
designs, which are flexible and dynamic and can be tailored to classes’ learning needs.

The City of Munich has a long tradition of working on socially responsible procurement. A tender for the City of Munich’s most recent school food catering framework contract, which uses the ‘cook and freeze’approach, was launched at the end of March 2017.

Austria’s Federal Procurement Agency (BBG) is the central purchasing body for
Austria, and provides holistic purchasing services and innovation procurement
support to public authorities in Austria,including ministries, regional and local governments.BBG’s central role is to bundle requirements from across the public sector to obtain better prices and conditions from suppliers, and reduce
the costs and legal risks involved in procurement exercises.

The City Council - through its schools, kindergartens, offices and other buildings - is a major consumer of cleaning services and therefore has the potential to exert considerable influence over the Icelandic cleaning services market.

The Wilanów District Office – one of 18 Districts of the City of Warsaw - carried out a procurement of environmentally-friendly cleaning and maintenance services for some of the city’s water supply and treatment plants.

SCR, the central purchasing body for the Piedmont Region in Italy awarded contracts in 6 lots to provide organic catering services to hospitals across the region.

This collection of best practices aims to clarify what Circular Procurement is and what its potentials are. It is intended to inspire procurement staff to look at products, to ask different questions, to analyse the needs in the organisations and to challenge the market to deliver a more circular supply of products and services.