Sustainability and circularity in public procurement

✔ Consider the need rather than the product

✔ Consider the actual quantity required

✔ Do not buy if not necessary

✔ Focus on the service rather than ownership (e.g. through new business models such as Product as a Service (PaaS))

✔ Efficient and intensive use of products (e.g., sharing economy)

✔ Rely on used materials and existing products (e.g. second hand, sharing economy

✔ Responsible management and efficient use of resources

✔ Avoiding packaging or choosing reusable or recyclable packaging

✔ Reuse
✔ Repair and refurbish
✔Repurpose e.g., through upcycling

✔ Respecting the biological cycle
✔ Ensuring the recycling of products, parts or fragments (e.g., through take-back schemes).

✔ Energy efficiency and renewable energies
✔ Short transport routes (e.g., through local materials and products)

✔ Avoiding the pollution of water, air and soil
✔ Preservation of biodiversity

✔ Decent working conditions and wages
✔  Transparency of the production chain
✔ Commitment to gender equality
✔  Respect for the safety and health of workers as well as  users