THE ROLE OF REGIONAL POLICIES IN SUSTAINING THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR THROUGH GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT APPROACHES

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1 THE ROLE OF REGIONAL POLICIES IN SUSTAINING THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR THROUGH GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT APPROACHES REGION OF SARDINIA SERVICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINIBILITY LUISA MULAS

2 SARDINIA BACKGROUND Sardinia is an island region forming part of Italy, with a population of just over 1.6 million people. The government of Sardinia has invested significantly in the implementation of green public procurement (GPP) in its regional offices since GPP policy has been used as a lever to stimulate a green regional economy

3 Government by using their purchasing power to choose goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact, can make an important contribution towards local, regional, national and international sustainability goals. It is a market incentive to develop green products and service GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Government expenditure on works, goods and services represents around 14% of EU GDP.

4 EUROPEAN STRATEGY Regulation on the EU Ecolabel Closing the loop An EU action plan for the circular economy Europe 2020 A strategy fir smart, sustainable and inclusive growth Directive 2014/24/ EU public procurem ent BIO

5 GPP Tool kit - raccomandation- optional

6 NATIONAL POLICY 2008-National Action Plan CAM Minimal environmental Criteria Complulsory since 2015 Tool CAM -The criteria are designed to be inserted directly into tender documents and include information on verification methods

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8 SARDINIA S POLICY Regional Action Plan for Green Public Procurement (PAPERS)... part of which included the "Sardinia Buy Green" campaign, a communication campaign aimed at raising awareness of GPP. The Action Plan included workshops on GPP for regional officials and the establishment of GPP information and technical support desks.

9 GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Technical support workshops One to one meeting Public procurers Suppliers Help desk information information prototype toolkit

10 Construction Tourism Agriculture Environmental impacts Production chain and stakeholders Release of regional funds, incentives, rules Pilot projects

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12 Department of Agriculture Department of Environment Department of Health Multisiciplinary working group Agenda for the agriculture and sustainable catering policy

13 EXPECTED RESULTS Improve know-how and experience of public authorities in the elaboration and management of public contracts Promote sustainable management practices among suppliers of catering services Increase the partecipation of local producers in the supply chain for answering green public demand Increase the use of typical and traditional products in public canteens Collect and disseminate good practices (demand and offer side)

14 AGENDA Coordination establishment of a Technical Table on Sustainable Catering with participation of referents of municipalities with more than inhabitants, of hospitals and universities that run public catering services Observatory the creation of an Observatory on demand and offer for sustainable public catering in Sardinia (with focus on food supplies), whose first report analysed the production side and the food demand side of public canteens from the Region Tender elaboration of a prototype tender for school catering with environmental criteria based on national environmental criteria foreseen by the Italian National Action Plan for GPP which include minimum percentages of organic products, PDOs, PGIs, TSGs

15 AGENDA2 Meetings meetings with suppliers (food producers and companies that manage catering services) in order to analyse the obstacles in accessing public tenders and the opportunities offered by green public procurement; Network creation of the Regional Network of Sustainable Canteens; Pilot implementation of a pilot action for the definition of a local sustainable food strategy

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17 Observatory More than 61 millions euros spent each year on catering services by the PA schools: about 40 mln di euro universities: about 4 mln di euro hospitals: about 17 mln

18 Observatory 2 Agricultural policy Incentives to develope short and local food suply chains (cooperation between small farms to collect their products so as to be competitive in the public market) Incentives to certificate farm production, mainly organic and integrated production Tecnical rural agencies increased programmes on sustainable agriculture (water, energy, use of pesticides ) Shared information on food public procurement rules Public procurement policy Prototype tenders, to give coherent signals to the offer side Food education programmes included in restoration services contracts Awareness o the relation between quality food served in public spaces and local production and private consumption practices

19 Demand per type of food (tonnes ) CEREALI 4,80 PASTE ALIMENTARI E RISO 866,20 PANE, FARINE E GRATTUGIATO 1.269,05 FRUTTA 3.778,53 ORTAGGI E VERDURE 4.100,95 TRASFORMATI, ALIMENTARI E COLONIALI 1.818,

20 Demand per type of food (tonnes ) cont. PESCE 226,25 CARNE 878,66 LATTICINI 448,

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22 Public procurers Local level Citizens Environme ntal education centres City s food sustainable strategy Local councillors Catering services companies and school chefs Local organic farmers

23 Pilot Workshops to define a tender for kindergardens food procurement based on organic and seasonal food Meetings whith public buyers, school canteen managers, farm producers to analise challenges and risks of local production, seasonality, organic production Awareness raising meetings with families, educational centers, farmers on quality and healty food An agenda for future actions

24 Network MUNICIPALITIES THAT HAVE A SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL CANTEEN (2014)

25 LABELS Developed for PAs that committ to GPP. Different levels of implementation with the aim of continuous improvement.

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28 Financial support LIFE ERDF LIFE ERDF

29 THANK YOU Regione Sardegna Luisa Mulas Fondazione Ecosistemi Livia Mazzà