GPP National Action Plans

In 2003, the European Commission in its Communication on Integrated Product Policy (IPP) encouraged Member States to draw up publicly available National Action Plans (NAPs) for greening their public procurement.

The NAPs should contain an assessment of the existing situation and ambitious targets for the next three years, specifying what measures will be taken to achieve them. The NAPs are not legally-binding but provide political impetus to the process of implementing and raising awareness of greener public procurement. They allow Member States to choose the options that best suit their political framework and the level they have reached.

National Action Plans (NAPs) – the status in EU Member States

The document National GPP action plans (policies and guidelines) contains a comprehensive overview of the state of affairs in the 27 EU Member States (last updated in January 2012).

The following table summarises the status of the NAPs as of September 2010.

GPP element	Member State implementation (June 2010)
National Action Plan or equivalent document adopted	21: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
NAP in process of preparation	6: Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Romania
Targets/criteria adopted	21 MS
Market analysis conducted	9 MS
Communication and dissemination activities	9 MS
Training activities	18 MS
Monitoring	11 MS
GPP - Legally binding	Portugal, Germany (for wood and LCC use), Czech Republic (IT)