Raymond Van Ermen

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G.P.P.

• Raymond Van Ermen
• EPE Executive Director

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• An Evolving Demand
• An Integrated Approach
• An Industrial Project
• Foster Innovation

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• An Evolving Demand

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Responsible Purchasers
Procurement Policies
Consumer Purchases
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EUROPE Who is Shapping the Demand?
25 countries
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Evolving Market Requirements
Civil Society
Business

• EU Regulations
• Private Sector
• Supply Change
• Guidelines

Civil Society
EU
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European Legislation as a Market Driver

• Safety
• Environment
• Traceability

Waste Electronics
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Civil Society Boycotts Reputation Risk
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• The Challenge
• Non-Tariff Barriers 70 today
• 90 tomorrow
• Reflect Collective Preferences
• Phyto-sanitary
• Social
• Environmental

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Private Sector. Certificates CodesSupply Chain
guidelines
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PARTNERSHIP WITH CONSUMERS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS
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The Sustainable Trade Iceberg
Regulation
Ecolabels
Certification
Codes
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2. An Integrated Approach
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Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ecology
Sustainable Purchasing

• Corporate Governance
• Communication
• Liability

• Workers Rights
• Human Rights
• Outsourcing
• Suppliers Capacity Building

• Organic / Fair Trade
• Eco-textiles
• Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
• Forest Stewardship council (FSC)

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Cluster Agro-food 2006 A New Approach
Know How Technology Transfer
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Sustainable Trade 5 Objectives
Generates economic values Reduces poverty and
inequalities Regenerates the environmental resou
rces Carried within an open and
participatory governance system Manages
multiple collective preferences
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3. An industrial Project
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Resource Efficiency
A resource- efficiency revolution is essential
for the future of Europe its competitiveness,
quality of life and environmental sustainability.
The Resource-Efficiency Alliance purpose is to
emphasise the economic, innovation, security and
environmental benefits of enhanced efficiency and
support all initiatives needed to increase
efficiency energy, process and operational
efficiency, eco-efficiency of products and
services, efficiency of partnerships .
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The Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy
Independence
1. Promote Advanced Technology Hybrid
Cars 2. Invest In More Efficient
Factories 3. Encourage High Performance
Building 4. Increase Use of Energy Efficient
Appliances 5. Modernize Electrical
Infrastructure 6. Expand Renewable Energy
Development 7. Improve Transportation
Options 8. Reinvest In Smart Urban Growth 9. Plan
For A Hydrogen Future 10. Preserve Regulatory
Protections
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4. Foster innovation
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• Handbooks on procurement are developed at EU
  level
• Handbook on green procurement (available)
• Handbook on innovative public procurement (DG
  Enterprise) by 2006
• Handbook on fair trade and public procurement (DG
  Employment) by 2006.

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Innovative Public Procurement
The promotion of innovation through
procurement/purchasing to take advantage of
freedom within the EU regulatory system to
improve the tendering process to encourage
sustainable purchasing and innovation create a
critical mass effect to accelerate the transition
towards a new economy
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The EPE European Workshop should adopt an agenda
of action 2006-2007 related to

• ?Market consultation is an exchange of
  information with stakeholders, initiated to test
  or elicit new ideas. It is a market search and a
  technical dialogue with potential suppliers
  before drawing technical specifications.
• A construction team approach involving the
  market in the design phase to make innovative
  solution more likely. (It is already largely used
  in the construction sector) . It also falls
  within the tendering rules.
• A public-private joint purchasing initiative
  to increase the demand and a larger scale effect.
• A public-private financial initiative, based
  on the Dutch Green Funds system, to encourage
  buyers to go for innovative technologies by
  giving access to finance to innovative non
  proven technologies.
• A product group alert system to review
  periodically a market for a given product or
  product groups.