This Cabinet of Ministers regulation lays down the principles, mandatory criteria and procedures for implementing green public procurement (GPP) in Latvia. It is designed to make environmental considerations a core part of public procurement by prioritising purchases that reduce lifecycle environmental impacts, including energy use, resource consumption and emissions throughout production, use and disposal. It supports sustainability goals by encouraging the inclusion of eco-labels, environmental management standards, renewable energy and energy-efficient products (e.g., electricity from renewable sources), and by allowing lifecycle cost assessment for energy-using products to inform the evaluation of economically most advantageous tenders. It also sets out rules for monitoring, control and reporting of compliance with green procurement criteria. Regarding energy consumption, the GPP Regulation states mandatory GPP criteria for:
- imaging (printing) equipment;
- computer engineering (hardware), ICT infrastructure, services of data centers;
- in-door lighting;
- street lighting and traffic lights;
- construction of new buildings or renovation of existing ones, applies for, so called, the third group of buildings (included by the Amendments of July 2023);
- purchase of cars and light duty vehicles (included by the Amendments of July 2023).
