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… an assessment of specific green public procurement issues, such as green energy and eco-labelling. It concludes that the Court of Justice has made a considerable progress to- wards inclusion of green criteria, but this paper also identifies a need for further improvement, which can be achieved through two means. First, it can be accomplished by broadening the concept of green public procurement and by introducing the notion of sustainable public pro- curement. The very recent case C-368/10 … criteria (see Article 34(b) of Directive 2004/17/EC and Article 23(3)(b) of Directive 2004/18/EC). It is however interesting to see how eco- labels can be used as technical specifications. This will be addressed below. The personal ability may also be checked, in particular, an ‘indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able 71 S. Williams, Coordinating public procurement to support EU objectives – a first step? The case of exclusions for serious criminal … products are not per se more expensive. Contracting authorities should take into account costs that incur during their life cycle. The Commission’s handbook states that the lifespan, the discount rate and the data availability has to be checked. That means that sometimes the cheapest product is also the most environmentally friendly product. Beer bottles in glasses may re- flect a consumer preference and they are therefore presumably not more expen- sive. 92 Nevertheless, the …