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… of Products (EIPRO) – Analysis of the life-cycle environmental impacts related to the final consumption of the EU-25, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (DG JRC/IPTS, European Commission), 2006. 15 European Commission, Environment – Buying Green Handbook, 2013, available at <http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/handbook.pdf> (last visited 30.05.2013). 16 COM (2008) 400 final. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32004L0017:EN:NOT … be introduced at this stage by the contracting authority. 68 Technical specifications can also be defined by the use of eco-labels but only if they are appropriate to define the characteristics of the product or 66 European Commission, Environment – Buying Green Handbook, 2013. 67 European Commission, Environment – Buying Green Handbook, 2013. 68 Technical environmental requirements in: Article 23(3) (b) Directive 2004/18/EC and Article 34(3) (b) Directive 2004/17/EC; and material and production … module for purchasing officers. The first module instructs national contracting authorities how to progressively include GPP in their tender procedure according to a step- by-step mechanism. The latter would appear as a management cycle of “Plan, Do, Check, Act”. 109 The second module establishes a legal framework for GPP, as examined above, which consists mainly of the public procurement directives and the jurisprudence of the CJEU. The third module is more concrete and maybe the most important …