Public
contracts and ecological criteria: a document that analyses current public procurement legislation at national and European level and that traces a general framework for the introduction of environmental criteria in the procurement procedures of public administrations.
Informative
booklet : the document is composed by sheets divided by theme: from an overview of sustainable development, that looks also at relevant national and European policies, to instruments useful for a local sustainability path. Technical aspects, such as Integrated Product Policy and life cycle analysis are also analysed thoroughly. The booklet ends with a glossary.
check-list
of detail to be compiled, with the aim of identifying GPP
possible areas of intervention. The check-list is divided into
five categories of activities carried out by the Municipalities
in the two-year period 2001-2002: supply of services, purchase
of consumable goods, purchase of durable goods, management and
maintenance of buildings, realization of public works.
Hierarchy
of impacts: the document analyses services supplied and
products purchased by the municipalities that adhere to the
GPPnet and by four departments of the Province of Cremona, through
the examination of the expense accounts and the check-lists.
The Hierarchy of impacts has the purpose of defining a methodology
for the identification of goods and services with relevant environmental
impacts.
GPP Handbook: a corpus of 300 pages for
189 products, 14 ecological labels and 15 sample sheets; it
groups goods and services by typology and identifies the associated
ecological criterion and the place of the call for tender where
it should be introduced. The GPP Handbook is structured in an
initial general section, followed by a methodological and an
operational parts organized by sheets that indicate for each
product or service to be purchased the environmental aspect,
the ecological criterion, specific ecological labels as reference
like the eco-label and the indication of where the ecological
criterion should be inserted in the call. The handbook is available
on request,via
e-mail, in pdf format (2,3 MByte) also in English
