GPP News Alert 28/02/2023

Dear colleague,

Welcome to the February 2023 edition of the Green Public Procurement (GPP) News Alert.

A quick look at this month’s headlines:

• Main article: 'EU agrees on new sustainable and circular batteries regulation';

• Interview with Tatjana Orhini Valjavec, Ministry of the Environment in Slovenia;

• Good practice case: "Social and environmental criteria in Irish Prison Service’s mattress recycling initiative" – Ireland;

• Good practice case: "‘Oxygen’ project: planting 6 million trees, one tree for each inhabitant of Lazio Region" - Italy;

• Zoom in on… SAPIEN’S Advance training courses; 

• Zoom in on... . Integrating sustainability criteria into public procurement: an overlooked booster for clean technologies adoption;

• Zoom in on… New supply chain law;

• Zoom in on… Barcelona: Agreement to include social clauses in public procurement;

Happy reading!

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