Sustainable Public Procurement: The Use of Eco Labels

In 2015, SAPIENS lead researchers Associate professor Bogdana Neamtu and Jean Monnet Professor Dacian Dragos published their article “Sustainable Public Procurement: The Use of Eco Labels” in the European Procurement & Public Private Partnerships Law Review (EPPPL), volume 10, issue 2. The journal is “committed to observe and comment on relevant national, EU and international legal and policy developments informing and shaping Public Procurement and PPPs.”

Abstract article

This article introduces the concept of eco-labels (evolution, definitions, and classifications) and discusses its growing popularity in the context of major shifts in environmental policy. It then investigates the use of eco-label in the context of public procurement and explores the provisions from the new public procurement Directive applicable to eco-labels. The article ends with a discussion of the relevant case law of the CJEU.

The full article is now available on ResearchGate.

Assistant Professor
Bogdana Neamtu

Associate professor, head of the Department of Public Administration and Management, co-director of the Center for Good Governance Studies at Babes Bolyai University.

Jean Monnet Professor
Dacian Dragos

Jean Monnet Professor of Administrative and European Law, co-director of the Center for Good Governance Studies at the Public Administration and Management Department, the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Written by SAPIENS Network

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