Green public procurement (GPP) is a means to make public purchases of goods and services ‘green’ by applying environmental criteria to procurement procedures of Local Authorities and the Public Administration.

Buying green means choosing a certain product or service also on the base of the environmental impacts that it can have over its life cycle, that is during all phases of the production process, from the extraction of raw materials to waste disposal. GPP is thus the instrument that allows for the substitution of current products and services with others that have a reduced impact on the environment.

The environmental criteria are thus useful to give preference to those goods and services that:

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