This year marks the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Regulation on Green Public Procurement in the Republic of Slovenia. The Green Public Procurement team as part of the LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE project strives to increase the share of green public procurement and therefore carries out various activities such as education/trainings, preparation of promotional information materials and providing continuous professional assistance to clients. One of the activities of the project is a comprehensive analysis of the ecological, economic and social effects of Green Public Procurement. The analysis was carried out by the Ministry by the Laboratory for Energy Strategies (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana) with Austrian partners ConPlusUltra GmbH.
Apart from the main topic, the event aimed to stimulate networking, hosting various organisations working in the field of green and circular public procurement in order to exchange expert opinions in this field.
The analysis of the effects of Green Public Procurement (GPP) in the Republic of Slovenia was presented by Mr. Edin Lakić, senior research associate of the Laboratory for Energy Strategies. At the beginning, the methodology for conducting the analysis was presented, which was previously tested in a pilot analysis on a limited set of public procurements. As in the pilot analysis, the main analysis included an assessment of environmental, social and economic impacts. Since the GPP regulation covers as many as twenty-two items of Green Public Procurement, the document was limited to electrical devices, road vehicles and the design and/or construction of buildings. The results of the analysis obtained in more than a hundred public procurements were then generalised by extrapolation to all public procurements of the mentioned subjects in 2018, 2019 and 2020. You can check the detailed results and findings of the analysis in the document and presentation (available on this website).
A comprehensive impact analysis will be conducted again in 2025. During the analysis, proposals for improving and strengthening Green Public Procurement in Slovenia were identified, which will enable easier and more accurate identification of impacts in the future.