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Shifting from Voluntary to Mandatory Mechanisms to scale up Sustainable Public Procurement – The Integration of Voluntary Sustainability Standards into Public Procurement and Trade Policies

Asrolov, Farhod LU (2021) HARN63 20211
Department of Business Law
Abstract
Green and Sustainable Public Procurement are widely recognized as the strategic lever to promote innovation, sustainability, and the strategic tool on environmental and social protections. The extension of sustainability beyond environmental aspects, especially the integration of social and economic aspects is becoming common grounds in most jurisdictions. Meanwhile, this generates a considerable number of legal uncertainties about the legal status of sustainability laws, policies, and their relations with public procurement.
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze legal uncertainties in the continuously evolving concepts of sustainability and to define the status quo of CSR and its relationship with Sustainable Public Procurement.... (More)
Green and Sustainable Public Procurement are widely recognized as the strategic lever to promote innovation, sustainability, and the strategic tool on environmental and social protections. The extension of sustainability beyond environmental aspects, especially the integration of social and economic aspects is becoming common grounds in most jurisdictions. Meanwhile, this generates a considerable number of legal uncertainties about the legal status of sustainability laws, policies, and their relations with public procurement.
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze legal uncertainties in the continuously evolving concepts of sustainability and to define the status quo of CSR and its relationship with Sustainable Public Procurement. This has been achieved by analyzing two sets of legal provisions developed under the WTO and the EU jurisprudence.
At the international level, the WTO has been criticized for prioritizing global trade over environmental concerns. Only in recent decades, the WTO regulatory bodies have shown the possibilities of expanding the scope of environmental and social measures within international trade policies and government procurements. The revised GPA 2012 has created the legal possibilities of inclusion of secondary policy objectives in government procurements.
Finally, the challenges and reforms under the WTO jurisprudence have influenced the EU law, and the GPP and SPP have become common and widespread practices throughout Europe. The CJEU has made great contributions to these challenges by legitimizing the use of public procurement rules in support of social and environmental objectives in the form of strategic public procurement in a number of landmark cases. (Less)
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Green and Sustainable Public Procurement are widely recognized as the strategic lever to promote innovation, sustainability, and the strategic tool on environmental and social protections. The extension of sustainability beyond environmental aspects, especially the integration of social and economic aspects is becoming common grounds in most jurisdictions. Meanwhile, this generates a considerable number of legal uncertainties about the legal status of sustainability laws, policies, and their relations with public procurement.
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze legal uncertainties in the continuously evolving concepts of sustainability and to define the status quo of CSR and its relationship with Sustainable Public Procurement.... (More)
Green and Sustainable Public Procurement are widely recognized as the strategic lever to promote innovation, sustainability, and the strategic tool on environmental and social protections. The extension of sustainability beyond environmental aspects, especially the integration of social and economic aspects is becoming common grounds in most jurisdictions. Meanwhile, this generates a considerable number of legal uncertainties about the legal status of sustainability laws, policies, and their relations with public procurement.
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze legal uncertainties in the continuously evolving concepts of sustainability and to define the status quo of CSR and its relationship with Sustainable Public Procurement. This has been achieved by analyzing two sets of legal provisions developed under the WTO and the EU jurisprudence. (Less)
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author
Asrolov, Farhod LU
supervisor
organization
course
HARN63 20211
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
green public procurement, sustainable public procurement, corporate social responsibility, CSR, sustainability, environmental protection, social protection.
language
English
id
9052059
date added to LUP
2021-06-14 14:06:52
date last changed
2021-06-14 14:06:52
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  abstract     = {{Green and Sustainable Public Procurement are widely recognized as the strategic lever to promote innovation, sustainability, and the strategic tool on environmental and social protections. The extension of sustainability beyond environmental aspects, especially the integration of social and economic aspects is becoming common grounds in most jurisdictions. Meanwhile, this generates a considerable number of legal uncertainties about the legal status of sustainability laws, policies, and their relations with public procurement. 
 The purpose of this thesis is to analyze legal uncertainties in the continuously evolving concepts of sustainability and to define the status quo of CSR and its relationship with Sustainable Public Procurement. This has been achieved by analyzing two sets of legal provisions developed under the WTO and the EU jurisprudence.
 At the international level, the WTO has been criticized for prioritizing global trade over environmental concerns. Only in recent decades, the WTO regulatory bodies have shown the possibilities of expanding the scope of environmental and social measures within international trade policies and government procurements. The revised GPA 2012 has created the legal possibilities of inclusion of secondary policy objectives in government procurements. 
 Finally, the challenges and reforms under the WTO jurisprudence have influenced the EU law, and the GPP and SPP have become common and widespread practices throughout Europe. The CJEU has made great contributions to these challenges by legitimizing the use of public procurement rules in support of social and environmental objectives in the form of strategic public procurement in a number of landmark cases.}},
  author       = {{Asrolov, Farhod}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Shifting from Voluntary to Mandatory Mechanisms to scale up Sustainable Public Procurement – The Integration of Voluntary Sustainability Standards into Public Procurement and Trade Policies}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}