Traduction de «Development Criteria for Green Procurement » (Anglais → Français) :

Member States and regions should take further steps to reach the target of applying green procurement criteria to at least 50% of public tenders.

4. Supports the Commission’s idea of shifting the tax burden away from labour towards energy and environmental taxation; believes, however, that in many sectors a tax on mineral resources is not an adequate fiscal tool for increasing resource efficiency; welcomes the intention to encourage Member States to phase out environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS) more quickly by preparing plans and timetables and to report on those as part of their National Reform Programmes; notes that this should be achieved in a way that does not harm the EU’s competitiveness or increase the risk of carbon leakage; urges the Member States to promote new t ...[+++]echnologies and sustainable growth by, inter alia, ensuring that their public procurement policies better reflect resource efficiency; believes that activities aimed at developing criteria and promoting the uptake of those criteria by public authorities should be strengthened;

15. Emphasises the need to strengthen the leverage effect of Structural Funds through better use of public procurement; stresses in this respect the need to further develop and implement rules of procurement with reduced environmental impacts (‘green procurement’); encourages the Commission and the Member States to further stimulate the use of pre-commercial procurement in order to contribute to more RD and innovation in the EU;

- environmental sustainability criteria for food procurement practices (catering services) as a means to enhance food quality and local economic development, while also reducing ‘food miles’ and agrichemical dependence;

34. In addition, the tendency of companies and organisations to include occupational safety and health criteria into their procurement schemes has supported the development of generic procurement schemes based on uniform requirements for contractor occupational safety and health training or management systems, which allow for a third party to carry out the "certification" or initial approval of the contractors as well as overseeing the continuous improvement of the scheme.

5. Supports the "greening" of government spending through the introduction of stricter environmental criteria for public procurement and structural fund policies, thereby adding momentum to the introduction of new environmental technologies,