Briefing: The EU’s Public Procurement Framework
05-05-2020 - 14:21
This briefing indicates that further action is needed to promote strategic public procurement and in particular Green Public Procurement requiring low carbon, life-cycle and circular approaches in public purchases. The EU should increase – in tandem with the provision of assistance and tools – the number of mandatory green procurement requirements, either through technical specifications in the sectoral directives or through delegated acts to the procurement directives.
A voluntary approach is not sufficient.
This publication is provided by Policy Department A at the request of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).