University of Padua and Veneto Region more sustainable thanks to the memorandum of understanding on Green Public Procurement
The President of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia has signed in recent days with theUniversity of Padua, the University Ca ‘Foscari of Venice, the University of Verona, the University IUAV of Venice, Unioncamere Veneto and ARPAV – Veneto Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection, the Memorandum of Understanding on Green Public Procurement (GPP) – Green Procurement for Public Administration.
The agreement commits the Veneto Region and its partners for five years to give concrete realization to the principles of “circular economy” in a different way, having put around the same table all the actors that can determine the change: the contracting stations that create the demand, the companies that determine the supply, the universities that deal with research and sustainable innovation and the regional agency (ARPAV) that monitors, with its Waste Observatory, how many materials can be reintroduced as a resource in the production cycle, thus measuring the sustainable change of our territory.
The Protocol, besides pursuing the objective of enhancing and promoting public purchasing in the regional territory according to the GPP logic, also commits the institutions to prepare a document summarizing what has emerged from the activities carried out during each year. This document can then be used by each administration for its own institutional activities and the Veneto Region intends to use it at national tables and in the control room at the Ministry of the Environment, where it is represented with its own technicians, where the modifications to be made to the ministerial decrees that regulate the matter of green purchasing (the so-called CAM) are evaluated. In addition, these initiatives contribute to implementing what is provided for in the protocol signed in 2017 between the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of Land and Sea and the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces, aimed at the implementation and dissemination of Green Public Procurement.
For the first year of work, the administrations that signed the protocol have already defined to engage on the topic of waste and the opening event will be held in Venice on June 11, 2019, in the Palace of the Region, as part of the “III edition of the Forum Compra Verde – Veneto”: the day will be dedicated to the new strategy on GPP that the Region has given itself with the Memorandum of Understanding and to the deepening of the issues related to the management of municipal waste.