Research and practice: Eco-labels: A guide to building product selection
A new legal position relating to public procurement and the award of building contracts has come into being since the introduction of Directive 2014/24/EU. This so-called "contract award directive" encompasses public building contracts as well as supply and services contracts for public authorities. This new ruling enables the contracting authority to use the public procurement process to support common social and environmental objectives (innovative, ecological, social etc.) to an even greater extent. Preliminary remark (75) of the directive specifies that in order to achieve these objectives it should be possible for contracting authorities to refer, above all, to (preferably multinational) eco-labels and other labels in the procurement process.
