According to the European Commission, circular procurement as a specific approach to green public procurement pays special attention to “the purchase of works, goods or services that seek to contribute to the closed energy and material loops within supply chains, whilst minimizing, and in the best case avoiding, negative environmental impacts and waste creation across the whole life-cycle”. This more holistic approach is expected to create conditions that would stimulate energy and material savings, spread innovative solutions and create markets for clean solutions and hence lead to a circular economy.
CircPro’s main objective is to increase the implementation of circular procurement under the targeted policy instruments so that the circular economy principles and criteria are incorporated into them or taken into account as a horizontal principle. CircPro targets the circular procurement from different approaches that have different complexity: all of which facilitate closed loops, but where the focus shifts from better quality products to new and innovative products and new business concepts.
These challenged will be addressed by:
- Increasing partner regions’ know-how on circular procurement and recycled materials.
- Identifying, assessing, exchanging and disseminating the existing national/regional initiatives, good practices, supporting measures, pilots and initiatives, main actors, organisations and networks that could boost the implementation of the circular procurement in the regions.
- Identifying the procedural and legal barriers experienced by procurers and suppliers when implementing procurements with circular elements.
- Providing a meeting place and enhancing dialogue between procurers and suppliers (both groups are represented in the partnership and stakeholders’ groups).
This project is funded by Interreg Europe.
