Green Public Procurement (GPP)

Strategic exchange on GPP through European project between Italy and Romania

This month’s News Alert on green public procurement (GPP) is now available online at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/news_alert/Issue70_NewsAlert_April.pdf

In this issue you can read our interview with Carsten Wachholz from the European Environmental Bureau, based in Brussels, and what he has to say about the potential for furthering green purchasing actions through greater collaboration with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on sustainability issues.

Find out more about the strategic exchange of experiences happening between regional and national government entities in Italy and Romania through the EU-funded GPPBest project. Details of how the City of Ghent (Belgium) have greened their large-scale purchases of cleaning products for municipal buildings are also featured in this month’s newsletter. All products purchased by Ghent meet the criteria of the European Ecolabel, as a minimum.

To read more GPP examples, visit the European Commission’s GPP website. Previous issues of the GPP News Alert are available here