Dear colleague,

We’re pleased to send you the December edition of the News Alert on Green Public Procurement (GPP).

New practical guidance from the EU on Road Lighting is the focus of this month’s edition. The guidance also covers Traffic Signals, and comes in the form of practical criteria for procurers - for ease of including into Calls for Tenders.

This month we have interviewed Isa-Maria Bergman, who is the coordinator of the Competence Centre for Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement (KEINO) in Finland. The Centre brings together all the key players in this area to help structure, support and drive sustainability and innovation through public procurement in Finland.

In terms of good practice on GPP, this month we feature the following:

• Procurement of sustainable, customer-oriented transport services, by the City of Rotterdam (Netherlands)
• Circular catering services by the Municipality of Plavinu (Latvia)

And discover the following in other news:

• Consultation on EU Product Policy, as part of the Circular Economy Action Plan
• Data Centres and Public Space Maintenance: Get involved in the last rounds of consultation
• France plans to end ‘imported deforestation’
• Healthcare sector and reducing our carbon footprint

Happy reading and season's greetings!

Kind regards,

EU GPP Helpdesk
Tel: +49 761 368 920
E-mail: gpp-helpdesk@iclei.org
Web: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/index_en.htm