EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROPOSES NEW GREEN PROCUREMENT RULES FOR PUBLIC SECTOR VEHICLE FLEETS
January 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that public authorities be forced to consider the environmental performance of vehicles they want to buy or lease when offering transport procurement contracts out to tender. At present, national, regional and local governments can ignore the comparative performance regarding vehicle emissions of various models or transport services on offer, focusing on cost and efficiency. But under a new revised proposed procurement directive from the Commission, such green considerations would immediately become optional, ...
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