This guidance is intended to help those responsible for the commissioning, specifying and procurement of products, equipment and services, embed the benefits of a relevant and proportionate focus on repair, re-use and remanufacturing.

Nantes aims to be at the forefront of economic, social, environmental and democratic transitions by developing more responsible development models that involve all relevant stakeholders. This includes viewing public procurement as more than just a technical decision and ensuring it is aligned with its political priorities. Nantes has undertaken numerous initiatives in the field of responsible procurement dating back to 2001.

Goood practice case of category management, which is a way of procuring goods and services by the national government in the Netherlands. Category management means that each ministry, for a particular category of goods and services, procures on behalf of the other ministries.

The following report was prepared by the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), the Netherlands Standardization Institute (NEN) and Biomass Technology Group BV (BTG) and presents useful recommendations to overcome barriers for public procurement of Bio-Based Products and Services (BBPS), which were discovered during the 3-year project term of InnProBio. The focus of this document lies on four discovered barriers and respective recommendations to mitigate them.

Funded by the European Commission (EC) LIFE+ programme, LiveWell for LIFE is a ground-breaking project that not only set out to show how low carbon diets can help achieve a reduction of at least 25% in greenhouse gas emissions from the EU food supply chain but also showed how these can be healthy, nutritious and affordable.

The project also aimed to influence policies and practices to ease the adoption of low-carbon diets in the EU – and in particular in our pilot countries: France, Spain and Sweden – and ultimately, to put the issue of sustainable diets on the EU policy agenda.

The ambition of the Plan is to (1) making it easier for procurers to deliver a good service through a clearer, more consistent approach, (2)giving a clearer, more consistent method and message to suppliers, to show them exactly what
the public sector is looking for and (3)opening up the supply chain to a wider range of companies.

The purpose of this guidance is to provide a practical overview of the issues at stake, best practice examples and detailed criteria for insertion in tenders. The guidance covers sectors such as transport, energy, construction, food and catering services.

the first aim of this report is to summarize the scientific background related to the topics of health and sustainability in the domains of diet and nutrition. It includes a section addressing the role of sustainable public procurement in the field

This guide presents an inventory of the sector in 2017: economic data,
movement history, frame regulatory, practical tools, initiatives, challenges for tomorrow.