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Title: The role of Eco-labels in green public procurement


1
The role of Eco-labels in green public
procurement
  • Paul Speight
  • DG Environment D.3
  • European Commission

2
Structure of presentation
  • Legal situation under Directives
  • Interpretative communication of 4 July 2001
  • Revision of public procurement Directives
  • Helsinki bus case
  • Practical situation
  • Situation of public purchasers
  • Advantages of using Eco-labels in procurement
  • Context - Eco-labels one tool amongst many

3
Commission s view on how to use Eco-labels
legally
  • Set out in interpretative communication (4/7/01)
  • Eco-label criteria can be used to inspire
    technical specifications where appropriate
  • purchaser can use some or all of the criteria,
    they can cut and paste or just use as a starting
    point, etc
  • criteria that give an economic advantage to the
    contracting authority can be used at the award
    stage
  • Possession of an Eco-label certificate can be
    accepted as a means of proof (other means must
    also be accepted)

4
Developments in the legal situation
  • Revision of the public procurement Directives
  • Possibility of using Eco-label explicitly set out
  • Characteristics of appropriate Eco-labels defined
  •  Helsinki bus  case (C-513/99)
  • Could modify the situation on the kinds of
    criteria that can be used at the award stage

5
Practical situation - advantages of Eco-labels
  • Public purchasers lack time and expertise
  • It is difficult to find or develop appropriate
    life cycle based environmental criteria
  • Use of Eco-labels saves time and provides
    purchaser with rational information that has been
    through a stakeholder process
  • Alternative to Eco-label criteria can sometimes
    be guesswork - worse for business
  • Using Eco-labels in green public procurement
    helps support the label

6
Use of Eco-label in context
  • One of several sources of information methods
    of proof
  • EPDs, EMS, Databases, handbooks
  • Commission working on two such tools
  • Practical Handbook
  • Information database
  • We will know more about the use of Eco-labels
    when we have the results of a planned survey on
    green purchasing - start 2003
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