1. WG Environmental Expenditure Statistics Green public procurement (GPP)
Unit E2 Environmental accounts and climate change
Luxembourg, March 2012

2. Overview Background Further developments at DG ENV since March 2011
Questions
March 2012
Resource use and management expenditure accounts

3. Background GPP definition (European Commission):
"a process whereby public authorities seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life cycle when compared to goods, services and works with the same primary function that would otherwise be procured“
Communication published on 16 July 2008 “Public procurement for a better environment” (COM (2008) 400)
Regulation 2195/2002 on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
EU 2020 Strategy, Communication ‘Energy a strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy’ and Innovation Union (more than 30 action points)
March 2012
Resource use and management expenditure accounts

4. Background
Three studies commissioned by DG Environment: in 2009, 2010 and 2011
WG 2011 discussed possible ways forward
Agreed that GPP is an interesting topic to be measured, but the possibilities of the statistical system are rather limited
Eurostat continued to follow closely the work done by DG Environment
March 2012
Resource use and management expenditure accounts

5. Further developments at DG Environment since March 2011
Results of the 2011 monitoring report are available, report to be published soon:
Continuously changing criteria for defining GPP
Revised ‘Buying green’ manual on 25 October 2011
Low response rate for the survey in the MS
Low comparability between countries (e.g. 99% of public procurement in the NL is green)
GPP helpdesk is available
Public consultation on future GPP policies: opened until
GPP issue brought up to also the attention of DG Research
March 2012
Resource use and management expenditure accounts

6. Any new experience on GPP in your country since March 2012?
QUESTIONS
Any new experience on GPP in your country since March 2012?
Further ideas are welcomed
March 2012
Resource use and management expenditure accounts