The city of Bremen commissioned the new report ‘Beyond Buying: how can the circular economy principles feed sustainable public procurement policies and practices?’ to outline how municipalities can include circular economy principles into their procurement policies and practices. The report also makes policy recommendations to support these efforts and mainstream sustainability across the procurement process.

This GPP Case Study from Smiltene County (Latvia) is about sustainable school furniture procurement using a number of green criteria as technical specifications, such as sustainable forestry, reduced chemicals, provision of spare parts and disassembly requirements.

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

Based on research and practical implementation of pilot procurements done as part of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme funded Circular PP project, this document includes six
recommendations to the European Commission in support of the Circular Economy Action Plan.

The Circular PP project recorded the lessons learnt from pilot circular procurements in three places - Aalborg (Demnark), Malmö (Sweden), and several Latvian municipalities. This summary leaflet presents the main lessons from each pilot.

A video showing the results of Malmö's "non-new" furniture framework, which was piloted as part of the Circular PP project.

A report, published by the European Commission, collecting 71 good practice cases on how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), in order to promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, ethical trade, design for all and seeking to achieve wider compliance with social standards.

European Commission Webinar on green procurement of furniture with an emphasis on refurbishment and end-of-life services. The session features examples from Public Health Wales and the city of Wageningen. The recording is available.