The Regulation provides the framework to set minimum product-specific mandatory green public procurement criteria at EU level.

The European Commission has decided to renew the membership of its Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. The Group will play a key role in contributing to the work leading to the revision of the Public Procurement Directives. We therefore welcome procurement experts from public and private sector, civil society, and academia to apply to the selection process of for this renewed Expert Group. The purpose of this group is to provide the Commission with high-quality legal, economic, technical, and practical insights and expertise to help it in shaping the public procurement policy of the Union.

The European Commission has published a Staff Working Document (‘SWD'), clarifying how it will determine when a foreign subsidy distorts the internal market and how it will apply the balancing test under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (‘FSR').