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… the most comprehensive and elaborated guidance on green public procurement and its future perspectives up to date is established in the Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption 5 UNOPS, ILO, ITC. A guide on Sustainable Procurement for the UN System - Buying for a better world. p. 12 6 Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Integrated Product Policy - Building on Environmental Life-Cycle Thinking of 18 June 2003, COM(2003) 302 final. 7 Council of the European … of the products which are to be supplied to the purchasing authority; 19 Working Staff Document also suggests that while formulating minimum technical or award criteria contracting authority should indicate relevant methods that it will use to check the conformity of the bid with the criteria that would allow tenderer to verify the compliance with environmental requirements. In the very complex cases, verification by performing tests in laboratories should be allowed. Life cycle costing. … the main public procurement Directives - 2004/18/EC 23 and 2004/17/EC 24 , case law, and rules concerning State Aid and Competition. Additionally, the European Commission presented a number of interpretative and non-binding documents, such as the Buying Green handbook, the Training Toolkit, and the Commission Interpretative Communications. The TFEU does not contain explicit rules on green public procurement. However, it provides relevant principles which must be respected during the green …