GPP and Type I Ecolabeling in China€¦ · and Ecolabeling - SPPEL Basis of laws Green public procurement has been included in “The Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic

Sustainable Public Procurement and Ecolabeling - SPPEL

�Policy Framework Evolution

�China Environmental Label

�GPP Policies and implementation activities

�Monitoring system and results

�Challenges & Success factors

GPP and Type I Ecolabeling in China

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Evolution of the Policy Framework

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Policy Framework over the years…1993 � Ministry of Environmental Protection

(formerly referred to as State Environmental Protection Administration) launched China Environmental Labelling Program.

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Policy Framework over the years…1993

� China Certification Committee for Environmental Labelling Products (CCCEL) (Environmental labelling product certification)环境标志计划

1994

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2002

Government Procurement Law

� Covers the procurement by the national government and regional and local authorities (excludes Public Companies and stand-alone infrastructure projects)

� Stipulates that public authorities should give priority to products that are environmental friendly and use resources efficiently

� Works, goods and services listed in certain catalogues or above certain threshold

1994

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2002Promotion of Clean Production Law

� Requires governments to prioritise the procurement of energy and water saving and recycled products

1994

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Ministerial Regulation for Implementation of Government Procurement for Environmental Labelled Products (ELP)

�Requires governments to give higher preference in procurement to products in the ELP List

�Voluntary

2002

2006

1994

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2002

2006

2008

Promotion of Circular Economy Law

� Establishes preferential procurement of energy- / water- / material-saving, environmentally friendly and renewable products

1994

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Basis of laws

� Green public procurement has been included in “The Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of PRC.”

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- Green public procurement is an important practice of institutional transformation and an important approach to build environmental friendly society.

- The integration of environment and development is one of specific methods to support micro economy. It is also an important approach to promote energy saving & emission reduction for sustainable development.

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Policy Framework over the years…

� Different types of policies promoting GPP within the public sector (in procurement law, national environmental laws and ministerial and state regulations)

� Involvement of different Ministries and National Government institutions (LGPC, NDRC, MOF and MEP)

� Linked to national ecolabelling programmes

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What positive aspects you take with you?

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China Environmental LabellingMain characteristicsGreen Label institutional frameworkProduct categories and certified products

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China Environmental Labelling� Voluntary

� China

� Certifies products

� Type of information: Leadership

� All life-cycle stages in consideration

� Multi-Impact addressed

� Multiple sectors covered

� Third-party verification http://kjs.mep.gov.cn/zghjbz/

index.htm

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Sun

Clean water

mountains

Rings

• The center of the labelling, Sun, mountains and water, represents the environment for human survival. • Ten connected rings which surround the center signify that public should participate protecting environment. • The overall implication is that people come together to protect the environment for human survival.

China Environmental Label is a proof sign. it means that comparing to other products fulfilling the same function, any product or service awarded this logo results in a lesser environmental impact during its lifecycle.

Brief Introduction to the Label

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Environmental Label Institutional Framework

Give proposals

MEP

Environmental

Develop. Center

Authorises EDC to develop

criteria

Interested

Parties

Criteria development

Final criteria approval and

publication

Working groupsParticipate in the

working groups

Interested

Parties

Source: Government public procurement and environmental labeling in China. Environmental certification center [slides], 2013.

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Environmental Label Product Categories� Total of 98 categories (in 2015) :

� Household appliances: refrigerators, air conditioners, water

heaters, microwaves, etc.

� Office equipments: printers, copiers, faxes, computers,

monitors, etc.

� Office stationary: paper, stationary, cartidges, etc.

� Building material: wood-based panels, cement products,

building ceramics, lightweight construction materials, etc.

� Others: paints, furniture, sanitary wares, solar systems, etc.

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Environmental Label Certified Product Evolution

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The Implementation of Green Public ProcurementPolicy objectives and commitmentsInformation resourcesRecognition of good practices

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GPP Policy Framework

Regulation for Implementation of Government Procurement for Environmental Labelled Products

�Elaborate and regularly maintain a Procurement List of Environmental Labelled Products (ELP List)

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MOF MEP

Environmental Labelling List

LGPC

Environmental Certification

EDC CEC

GPP-ELP Institutional framework

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GPP Information Resources

To support GPP implementation the government provides:

ELP Lists

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� The lists organise certified products by product categories and, for each of them provide information on their producers and certificates

� MOF and MEP do policy announcements for each revision of the lists

� Product lists are published on designated websites and sent to local government agencies and procurement centres

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Product categories of

China Environmental

Labelling

Government Procurement

of Environmental

Labelling Products List

Products

Services

Government procurement item category

Principles for determining government procurement environmental labelling product categories

Construction

Services

Products

The government centralized procurement is updated every year, considering whether new product categories are in the government procurement items.

Environment Label Product Procurement List

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CementLighting

sourceServers

eco-

textilescanister

Environment Label Product Procurement ListSince 2006, updated twice a year

115.071 products in 45 categories (16th version)

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� The ELP List is created by considering the following (based on the State Council Regulation of 2006):

� Products in the ELP Lists should be certified by the Environmental Labelling product certification organization.

� The products must have enough production lot, mature technology, reliable quality

� There are perfect supply systems and good aftersale service of the products


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GPP Information Resources

To support GPP the government provides:

GPP training� MOF regularly conducts training of local

government purchasing agencies.

� At least once in a year, but may be more according to the specific situation.

� Local provincial procurement centers also organize training workshops as necessary.

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Other Support Measures

� Chinese Green Purchasing Network : Created by the Environmental Development Center (of MEP) for for promotion of GPP and sustainable consumption. All enterprises that have achieved China Environmental Labelling certification are members of the the Chinese Green Purchasing Network.

� Green Printing Programme : collaboration agreement between MEP and the General Administration of Press and Publication to produce ecolabeled textbooks for primary and secondary schools

� Subsidies for green vehicles (in 2009)

� International cooperation projects : such as EU SWITCH-Asia Programme ; SPPEL project ; etc.

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What elements do you like of the Chinese strategy and should be considered in your

country?

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Monitoring system and resultsMonitoring systemLevel of GPP implementationMarket transformationBenefits of GPP

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GPP Monitoring System

� Not yet standardised for all government agencies

� In process to establish a system that will foster implementation

� General Plan for Construction for National Government Procurement Management and Trading Platform (MOF, 2013). In August 2015, General Office of the State Council issued the Work Plan on Integration and Establishment of a Unified Public Resource Trading Platform, proposing to form a public resource trading platform with unified rules in the whole country by the end of June 2017.

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75.3%

24.7%

According to statistics of the year 2014, the scale of government procurement environmental protection reached 176.24 billion yuan, accounting for 75.3 % of government procurement of the same product category.

Results: GPP Implementation

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Results: Market transformation

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Results: Market transformation

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Benefits

Total government procurement of environmental protection products reached 176.24 billion yuan, accounting for 75.3% of the government procurement of the same products.

Reduction of VOCs emission reached 205,000 t, 25 ti mes of the planned emission reduction of Beijing Municipality in the same year; Reduction of CO ₂ emission reached 859t, equivalent to an increase of 4.69 m³ forest volume;Reduction of total phosphorus emission reached 1232 t, about 1/10 of the annual total phosphorus emission of the Taihu Lake watersh ed;Reduction of Hg emission reached 16.75 t, equivalen t to the Hg content of 280 million No.5 batteries.

Promoting eco-civilization construction and leading toward sustainable consumption of the whole society

Benefits of China ELP

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Calculated the basis of national government procurement

of 10,000 printers and 10,000 laptops per year, the major

electronic products of government green procurement can

save electricity by 1.58 million KWh, reduce dust by 430 t,

CO₂ by 1575 t, SO₂ by 47 t, and NOx by 23.7 t.

Benefits of China ELP

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Having estimations on the environmental benefits would help in your promotion of GPP?

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Challenges & Success Factors

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Updated regularly

Policy advantage

Executive force

Operate easily

All departments using financial fund should carry out, otherwise are refused to provide fund.

Based on ecolabeled

products (linking GPP-

ecolabels) and provided

in a list, update regularly

With laws and regulations,

Issued by the Ministry of

Finance and the Ministry

of Environmental

Protection

The list is conveniently

operated by purchaser

and supervised by

society.

环境保护部环境认证中心www.sepacec.com

Success Factors

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Challenges

� Limited scope of GPP, both in terms of categories and organisations covered:

� The categories of designated products is still small.

� An important public sector (State-owned companies and similar) are not included in the current GPP framework.

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Challenges

� The policy for GPP should be improved: The policy framework of green procurement is not complete. There is no specific green procurement law in China but the related requirements were include in the government procurement law.

� Complicated hierarchical structure of government procurement creates confusion about GPP

� Lack of consciousness on GPP

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Way Forward

� GPP has to be promoted more intensively in all public authorities (local, regional and national)

� More resources need to be provided to support public authorities in conducting their GPP

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Take away

&

follow-up actions

Ms. Ding LingDirector, Green Procurement Promotion Office

China Environmental United Certification Center, China

High-Level Training Workshop on the Implementation of Green Public Procurement and Eco-labelling in Asia-Pacific Countries, 16th December 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Presentation prepared by CEC using as basis UNEP’s SPP Training Toolkit slides prepared by Aure Adell.

Documents

GPP and Type I Ecolabeling in China€¦ · and Ecolabeling - SPPEL Basis of laws Green public procurement has been included in “The Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic