Is public procurement going green? experiences and open issues

Appolloni, Andrea and D'Amato, Alessio and Wenjuan, Cheng (2011): Is public procurement going green? experiences and open issues.

Abstract

Public purchasing authorities are in a leading position for the introduction, promotion and development of green procurement. Indeed, the public sector can influence green procurement both by designing suitable policies and by driving “green” markets through the significant share of public purchases on GDP. The European Commission (EC) has emphasized the importance of cost-efficient GPP and, in compliance with the EU’s Integrated Product Policy (IPC), Member States have been encouraged to devise national action plans. As a result, many countries have already adopted steps in the direction of greening public purchases. The aim of our paper is twofold: first, we focus on the state of the art in terms of the EU and Italian Legislation; then, we highlight open questions related to crucial issues in GPP implementation, with a particular attention to the design of green tenders and awarding criteria to account for environmental quality in public purchasing procedures.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Green Public Procurement/Purchasing (GPP), Italy, EU, Legislation and Implementation
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H57 - Procurement; L - Industrial Organization > L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy > L51 - Economics of Regulation; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G18 - Government Policy and Regulation; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General > Q01 - Sustainable Development

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