Green Procurement

Definition

Green Procurement is an approach whereby buyers seek to procure with a reduced environmental impact.

The approach may apply to the complete life cycle. The reduced environmental impact is in comparison to goods, services and works with the same primary function that would otherwise be procured.

See Also

• Green Public Procurement

References

• Tightly related are article 68 - Life-cycle costing and article 67 - most economically advantageous tender (see GPP handbook) https://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/Buying-Green-Handbook-3rd-Edition.pdf
• An instance of the class Green Procurement is represented in eForms with the code \"env-imp\" defined in the codelist strategic-procurement.paragraphs) https://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/Buying-Green-Handbook-3rd-Edition.pdf