In accordance with the European Commission’s guidelines “Guidelines for Member States to set up Action Plans on Green Public Procurement”, green public procurement refers to a policy whereby public entities incorporate ecological criteria and/or requirements into the purchasing process (public procurement procedures) and seek solutions that minimize the negative impact of products/services on the environment, take into account the entire life cycle of products, and thereby influence the development and dissemination of environmental technologies. Environmental technologies, on the other hand, mean all technologies whose use is less harmful to the environment than the use of alternative traditional technologies.
They include:
pollution management technologies, products and services that are less polluting to the environment and created based on lower consumption of various resources, as well as ways of managing resources more efficiently. Therefore, the goal of green public procurement is to achieve the widest possible level of consideration for environmental issues in tender procedures.
The current, subsequent National Action Plan on Sustainable Public Procurement for 2010-2013, which is part of the National Development Strategy 2007-2015, is Poland’s response both to the implemented environmental policy of the European Union, but also to the OECD Green Growth Strategy, and finally to the UN philosophy of sustainable global development, calling for a change in the production and consumption patterns of societies. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 6/2011