Sustainable Procurement: A Compliance Perspective of EU Public Procurement Law

Telles, Pedro; Ølykke, Grith Skovgaard

doi:10.21552/epppl/2017/3/7

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“…While the situation regarding strong domestic social considerations and a rather late adaption of environmental considerations distinguishes the UK and Sweden from Germany and the Netherlands, they share the recent integration of international social considerations into their public procurement regulation. In England and Wales, exclusion grounds for tenderers specifically include violations of "environmental, social or labour law obligations anywhere in the world" [90] (p. 248). In Sweden, the Code of Conduct for Suppliers of 2013 already includes social aspects related to international value chains, such as human rights and ILO core labor standards [91].…”

Section: Examples From the Global North: The Environmental Focus Of Pmentioning

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Multidimensionality of Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)—Exploring Concepts and Effects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe

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Strategic objectives in public procurement, such as environmental or social considerations, are being increasingly referred to under the umbrella term of sustainable public procurement (SPP). The concept of sustainability is intrinsically multidimensional, encompassing environmental, social, and economic aspects. However, the existing literature on SPP highlights the generalization that the regulation and practices of public procurement are biased toward the environmental dimension. There is conflicting evidence from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that calls for further investigation. Analyzing how SPP is actually constituted in SSA and contrasting it with the situation in the European Union (EU), as a spotlight on the Global South and North, contributes to a better understanding of sustainability in public procurement. The comparative analysis will help with understanding processes related to the integration or disintegration of sustainability dimensions in SPP. Our results indicate a contrary orientation on the environmental and the social dimensions in the EU and SSA. Although there is no sign of a comprehensive integration of all dimensions in SPP, there are developments toward the integration of the ‘missing’ dimension in the respective regional setting. Thus, at the moment, achieving a multidimensional implementation of SPP appears to be more a matter of expanding SPP practices of the ‘missing’ dimension than of pushing for integrated concepts.

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Section: Examples From the Global North: The Environmental Focus Of Pmentioning

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Multidimensionality of Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)—Exploring Concepts and Effects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe

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“…Public procurement rules aim to promote fair and open competition and minimize the risk of discrimination and fraud when a contract is awarded by a contracting authority (Nicolaides & Schoenmaekers, 2014). Procurement has been transformed in a way to enforce regulatory obligations that are not intrinsic to the process of buying (Telles & Ølykke, 2017). Public sector organizations are large buyers and, in previous research public sector, have been regarded to be able to affect the market through demand-driven innovation, especially if different public sector entities collaborate with each other (Knutsson & Thomasson, 2014).…”

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The Improvement Policy Design of Public Procurement Process for the Public Management Innovation in South Korea

Yoon

2023

Sage Open

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We introduce and study in this paper the policy design improvement regarding the public procurement process for public management innovation. Public procurement is obtained transparently and efficiently at the exact cost of goods, constructions, services, among others. In addition, it has decreased the national budget and supported the national economic development. Most of the major contributions of public procurement included support for small businesses, jobs, and balanced regional development. Nevertheless, a lot of issues have become apparent during the public procurement process, thus requiring preventive measures. The aim of this study is to demonstrate an enhanced public procurement process and develop efficient policies in the future. For this reason, we investigated the issues regarding South Korea’s public procurement process, and concentrated on policy improvement. It is our intention to provide a highly efficient global public procurement process that can be used as an academic paper that will help in developing South Korea’s public procurement process and policy direction.

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“…In research, the law and economics approach has been considered as a functional method to analyse public procurement rules and practices. For example, law and economics have previously been applied, when studying compliance with public procurement rules, 23 their potential distortions of dynamic competition in the relevant markets, 24 the fight against corruption 25 or the effectiveness of the legal framework as a whole. 26…”

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Is public procurement fit for reaching sustainability goals? A law and economics approach to green public procurement

Halonen

2021

Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law

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Green public procurement is assumed to have a strong steering effect. The recent EU Green Deal contains proposals to amend green public procurement rules from voluntary to mandatory regulation, which has been endorsed by several legal scholars. At the same time, the effectiveness of green public procurement as an environmental policy tool has been studied in economics, where research results present a reserved approach towards green public procurement’s effectiveness. This article examines green public procurement applying a law and economics methodology, with the goal of combining the approaches from different disciplines and finding ways in which environmental objectives can be effectively addressed through procurement regulation. The main conclusions are that the steering effect, costs and potential environmental impact of green public procurement vary in different industries and therefore a sector-specific approach should be adopted in the development of green public procurement regulation. In order to encourage companies to invest and develop their operations in a greener direction, it is important that a large number of contracting authorities use harmonized green public procurement criteria. Further, the effects of green public procurement regulation on competition and emissions from the private consumer market should be monitored and the potential of public procurement to achieve environmental objectives should be explored and compared with other policy options.

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Sustainable Procurement: A Compliance Perspective of EU Public Procurement Law

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Multidimensionality of Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)—Exploring Concepts and Effects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe

Multidimensionality of Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)—Exploring Concepts and Effects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe

The Improvement Policy Design of Public Procurement Process for the Public Management Innovation in South Korea

Is public procurement fit for reaching sustainability goals? A law and economics approach to green public procurement

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