Chair of the Seminar
Alexandra Terzaki
Public Procurement Law Expert and Business Consultant, Terzaki Unternehmensberatung, Vienna and Berlin
09:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:00
Welcome and Introduction Round
10:15
Political and Legal Framework for Sustainable Procurement
- What is sustainability law?
- The legal cover for the climate change
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and content of the Green Deal
- General Procurement Agreement, GPA – World Trade Organisation, WTO
- Pioneer Europe, first climate-neutral continent by 2050, circular economy
- EU sectoral regulations: IT office equipment, road vehicles, buildings
Prof. Christopher Bovis
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Chair in Law and Professor of European Business Law, University of Hull, Hull; Managing Editor of EPPPL
11:30
12:00
Multiple Crises – Current Challenges
- Buy less, buy better, use better, use longer
- Why source sustainably?
- The core aspects of sustainable procurement
Prof. Christopher Bovis
,
Chair in Law and Professor of European Business Law, University of Hull, Hull; Managing Editor of EPPPL
13:15
14:15
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, CSDDD
- Current status – Summer 2024
- First Compromise – March 2024 – European Parliament (Legal Affairs Committee) approved the compromise text.
- Next Steps
Alexandra Terzaki
,
Public Procurement Law Expert and Business Consultant, Terzaki Unternehmensberatung, Vienna and Berlin
15:30
Sustainability and Social Responsibility
- EU law as a maxim of interpretation in public procurement law
- Precautionary principle
- Human rights and public procurement
- Prohibition of „Modern Slavery“
- Sustainable development
- Conditions for the use of eco-labels
- Penalties in the climate sector
Alexandra Terzaki
,
Public Procurement Law Expert and Business Consultant, Terzaki Unternehmensberatung, Vienna and Berlin
16:45
19:30
Common Dinner with speakers and participants in a typical Viennese restaurant