In order to shape a ‘robust and resilient food system’, the European Commission proposed a ‘Farm to Fork strategy’' with concrete objectives on sustainable food procurement and the EU School Scheme related to school food and education. This policy brief provides recommendations on how to achieve these objectives.

Linking public canteens with small-scale farmers allows local and regional governments (LRGs) to bring environmental, social and economic benefits to their territory. It also allows
them to source fresh, healthy and seasonal food for the public canteens from short supply chains. As a result of the work developed in the COACH project and in the EU Food Policy Coalition (see the Farm to Fork Manifesto3), this policy brief makes policy recommendations on minimum standards addressed to LRGs. The objective of these recommendations is to increasingly involve small-scale
farmers in public food procurement

At its Plenary Session on 7 May 2021, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) adopted the Opinion "Safe and sustainable chemicals for a toxic-free environment in Europe's cities and regions". They see it as important for local and regional authorities to require the goods and products they acquire through public procurement to contain safe chemicals, thus helping to ensure that undesirable goods and products are phased out.

The aim of this paper written in the framework of the 'EU Food Policy Coalition (EU FPC) Public Procurement Task Force' is to provide five key arguments in favour of sustainable healthy food procurement to address the challenges of the EU food system. The paper seeks to provide strong evidence and thereby overcome any misconceptions about the gains of implementing sustainable food procurement in a comprehensive form.

The Strategy for the Impulse and Consolidation of the Innovation Procurement in the Public Administration of Andalusia is a combination of economic measures and other actions such as awareness, training and the creation of a structure of governance and support of free services, that seek to generate a change towards an administration of innovation, which transmits its long-term needs that requires companies to innovate, promoting research and business innovation through the innovation procurement.

This discussion paper is a step towards addressing the link between open and sustainable procurement by sketching the state of play in both fields and exploring paths towards a deepened collaboration between open and sustainable procurement advocates and practitioners - as a key priority to advance the SDGs and for a transformative recovery from Covid-19. The paper draws on a number of key informant interviews conducted with practitioners and experts from the open contracting and the sustainable procurement fields. bu

A set of recommendations directed at national policy makers has been published by the Circular PP project. These recommendations are the result of a large analysis conducted by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) to assess the state of circular public procurement policy and practice across eight Baltic Sea countries (Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Latvia, Poland, and Finland) as well as comparisons to the Netherlands and UK. The full analysis can be found here.

Provides recommendations on possible policy schemes, methodologies and initiatives for the deployment of Green Public Procurement for Innovation in European territories, aligned with smart specialisation strategies, to favour the participation of SMEs in public procurement processes and improve their competitiveness.

The Dutch Action Plan for Responsible and Sustainable Procurement focuses on the effective and efficient use of procurement as an instrument to realise policy objectives over the period 2015-2020.