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News article3 December 2024

Moving Green Public Procurement forward!

Photo of a group of people, in the auditorium room where the Spanish workshop took place

On 29 October, in the city of Madrid, a workshop on green public procurement took place. The workshop, which was organised by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), in collaboration with ICLEI Europe - Local Governments for Sustainability, was attended by a large number of stakeholders from other ministries, as well as from the Autonomous Communities, and representatives of the European Commission.  

At the beginning of the workshop, the Undersecretary for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of MITECO, Miguel González Suela, after welcoming the participants, gave an optimistic perspective, highlighting the interest in the theme and format of the workshop. He stressed the need to change the way we relate to nature, proposing a structural change and a change in the productive (and cultural) model; a change that necessarily involves the way in which public administrations acquire their goods and services. 

On the other hand, the workshop counted with the presentation of the state of the art by Vanesa Aventin Fontana, Deputy Director General of Governance and Coordination of Public Procurement of the Ministry of Finance, who commented on the Triennial Report on Public Procurement in Spain for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023. As well as the presentation by Ms. Verónica Gonzalo Gómez, Head of the PRTR Division of MITECO, on the catalogue of green technical specifications developed by MITECO and which is expected to be approved in the framework of the Interministerial Commission on Green Public Procurement. 

During the course of the workshop, the group was divided into two sub-groups: 1. Legal, and 2. Technical, in which the problems/barriers that exist today for the implementation of green public procurement in Spain were discussed, as well as possible solutions for them and actions to carry them out. 

It should be noted that this workshop took place in the framework of DG GROW's Procurement Dialogue Initiative project, which aims to carry out dialogues in all 27 Member States.