Green Public Procurement: Case Study of Latvian Municipalities

Pelša, Inese

doi:10.2478/eb-2019-0015

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“…Inese Pelša (2019), Letonya Cumhuriyeti belediyelerinde yeşil kamu alımlarının gelişimini destekleyen ve uygulanmasına engel olan faktörleri araştırmak amacıyla bir çalışma başlatmıştır. Çalışmada yeşil kamu alımlarının gelişiminde Bakanlar Kurulu Yönetmeliği ve diğer yasal düzenlemelerin (%42) ve daha çevre dostu ürün veya hizmetlerin satın alınmasının (%21) etkili olduğu tespit edilmiştir.…”

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Yeşil Kamu Alımları Farkındalığı: İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi Örneği

Kuran

AKDENİZ²

2022

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Yeşil kamu alımları sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedeflerine ulaşılması bakımından doğrudan ve/veya dolaylı olarak yardımcı olabilecek politika araçlarından biridir ancak küresel ölçekte yeterli düzeyde kabul görmemiştir. Hâlbuki yeşil kamu alımları başta çevresel konular olmak üzere sosyal, ekonomik ve politik alanlarda önemli bir etki yaratma potansiyeline sahiptir. Üstelik yeşil kamu alımlarının yaratacağı olumlu etkiler “eğer böyle olsaydı” tarzı bir temenni ve/veya ihtimalin çok daha ötesinde bir anlam taşımaktadır. Mevcut koşullar içerisinde bile bazı ülkeler tarafından hayata geçirilen birtakım girişimler yeşil kamu alımlarının faydalarını gözler önüne sermektedir. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’deki yerel yönetim birimlerinden biri olan İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi Su ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi Genel Müdürlüğü (Alt birim olarak Hizmet ve Yapım İşleri Şube Müdürlüğü ve Mal Alım İhaleleri Şube Müdürlüğü) çalışanlarının yeşil kamu alımları sürecine ilişkin bilgi düzeyleri ve farkındalıklarının yanı sıra bahse konu alımlar çerçevesinde kurumlarını nasıl değerlendirdikleri de analiz edilmiştir. Söz konusu analizi yapabilmek için çeşitli sorular hazırlanmış ve bu sorular toplam 25 katılımcıya yöneltilmiştir. Yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme tekniğinin kullanıldığı ve katılımcılara 25 sorunun yöneltildiği bu çalışmada, katılımcıların çoğunun yeşil kamu alımları kavramından haberdar olmadıkları sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

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Yeşil Kamu Alımları Farkındalığı: İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi Örneği

Kuran

AKDENİZ²

2022

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“…These results are worth contemplating in light of the procurement policy in Latvia where the Ministry of Finance is in charge of the development of the procurement policy, but the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development is responsible for the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of green public procurement (GPP) (Pelsa, 2019 implementation, supervision, evaluation, as well as control. These Regulations set seven groups of goods and services where the application of GPP criteria provided in regulation is mandatory: office paper, printing devices, computer hardware and infrastructure of information and communication technologies, food and catering services, cleaning products and services, internal lighting, street lighting, and traffic lights.…”

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The Market’s Maturity for Public Procurement of Circular Furniture: A Study from Latvia

Simanovska¹,

Pelša

2021

EIS

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Public procurement plays an important role in the market by making up 14% of the Gross Domestic Product in the European Union, therefore it is seen as an important instrument to promote such products and services that better meet society’s demands, for example, sustainability. Starting from 2015, circularity is an important aspect of sustainability. Furniture is among the product groups with a significant impact on the material footprint, therefore approaches to increase material efficiency and circularity are of high value. With this research, the authors investigate the market’s maturity, i.e. the readiness of suppliers to offer circular furniture and services, as well as the readiness of municipalities to uptake it. 20 companies and 27 municipalities took part in the survey. Results show that the surveyed companies currently are more ready to offer more circular products and services than municipalities require in the procurement tenders. Most surveyed municipalities are maintaining and repairing the furniture by themselves that is a circular approach but without outsourcing. The market consultation before the tendering could help to understand the market abilities better and lead to more circular purchasing contracts. This is an important task considering the importance of public procurement in promoting a circular economy.

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“…At the same time, in some areas food GPP is provided almost entirely by large established wholesalers. Analysing GPP in general without emphasis on food procurement, Pelša [6] stresses the importance of municipal purchases as promoting a sustainable consumption. However, such suggestion has its caveats.…”

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Estimation of impact of participation in public green procurement of food on farm numbers in rural Latvian counties

Hazners

Zvirbule

2023

22nd International Scientific Conference Engineering for Rural Development Proceedings

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Green Public Procurement (GPP) of food in Latvia is a tool that directly provides the increase in sales of local food products via purchases by local communities and state institutions in sectors such as education, defence, interior, healthcare and welfare. Public procurement within the framework of GPP ensures that the purchase of the food products or catering services minimizes the environmental impact while having positive social consequences. The share of local farms in the total directly provided product volumes within GPP is minor and the bulk of the farm produce goes through wholesale, food processing and public catering companies. The Latvian agriculture is experiencing continuous structural changes with the consolidation and decrease in farm numbers. The rate of the farm “disappearance” in rural counties with companies participating in the food GPP is similar to the counties without such companies. This could lead to the expectations that changes in the farm numbers are not affected by participation in GPP. While the previous research on the impact of GPP in the European countries has extensively focused on the environmental, economic and social issues, the causal inference with respect to changes in farm numbers has not been addressed. Coarsened exact matching (CEM) is the method for the estimation of the causal effects that has been widely applied to observational data. The advantages of CEM are associated with the reduction of the differences between multivariate distributions of covariates in treatment and control groups by pruning the data with splitting into pre-determined bins. The research objective is to evaluate the net impact of the participation in GPP by a rural county on the number of farms in this county. Considering the participation in GPP as a treatment variable in the rural county panel data, the results of CEM reveal positive net impact on the farm numbers in the treated counties. Albeit the direct farm participation in food GPP is negligible, the participation of other companies in food GPP has positive net direct impact on farm numbers. Participation in a food GPP over the period from 2018 to 2020 has contributed to sustainability of 2179 farms. Considering that only about 21% of rural communities have direct participation in food GPP, a modification of the National regulation of GPP towards an increased preferences for local suppliers would improve the resilience of the farming sector.

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Green Public Procurement: Case Study of Latvian Municipalities

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

Yeşil Kamu Alımları Farkındalığı: İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi Örneği

Yeşil Kamu Alımları Farkındalığı: İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi Örneği

The Market’s Maturity for Public Procurement of Circular Furniture: A Study from Latvia

Estimation of impact of participation in public green procurement of food on farm numbers in rural Latvian counties

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