Wallonia

SPP IN WALLONIA

Wallonia is one of the three Regions of Belgium—alongside Flanders and Brussels. The Government of Wallonia has been working on SPP since 2013. Two Action Plans for responsible public procurement have been adopted, and SPP is now a part of the Recovery Plan of Wallonia.

SPP HIGHLIGHTS

  • Reinforcement of the strategy of sustainable public procurement in the “Recovery Plan” adopted by the Walloon Government on 29 October 2021.
  • The strategy of sustainable public procurement was initiated in 2013.
  • In 2017, the Walloon government adopted its second Action Plan for responsible (sustainable) public purchases. Several tools and actions have already been developed during those action plans for sustainable public purchases (2013-2020) such as a helpdesk to assist contracting authorities in the integration of environmental, social and ethical clauses.
  • Public procurement identified as a lever to initiate Wallonia’s transition in the first strategy of the Circular Economy adopted on 4 February 2021.
  • Population:  3,633,795
  • Date joined: 2017

CONTACT

Alexandra Barbier
Responsible Public Procurement Project Manager

Website

More information? Send an email to procurement@iclei.org

SPP IN ACTION

POLICY AND STRATEGY

On 29 October 2021, Wallonia adopted its “Recovery plan”, including measures for sustainable public procurement. The projects 302 and 303 encourage transversal activities in SPP. The overall SPP themes include:

  • increasing the participation of SMEs in public procurement;
  • generalizing the insertion of social, environmental (including circular) and ethical clauses;
  • enhancing the collaboration in sustainable public procurement between the contracting regional and local public buyers and also companies tendering;

On 4 February 2021, Wallonia adopted his first strategy for the Circular Economy. Public procurement is here identified as a lever to initiate Wallonia's transition to a circular economy. Wallonia displays different ambitions by 2025 such as:

  • 50% of relevant public procurement contracts will integrate circular economy principles or circular criteria;
  • 75% of public ICT contracts will be circular and ethical;
  • All public demolition/deconstruction contracts and subsidized contracts will include a materials inventory and selective deconstruction;
  • Reuse materials will be used in all public works contracts and progressively in works subsidized by the Walloon Region;

An entire measure is also dedicated to strengthening the dynamics launched in terms of circular public procurement so that the Walloon Region will continue to improve the development of specific tools to help public procurers through circular clauses, circular facilitators, etc. The Region also has the ambition to integrate circular economy principles in the public procurement training program. The Walloon administration will also commit to becoming more exemplary in managing ICT equipment in a more circular way.

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