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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (II)

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Yesterday I looked into the main text of the draft Council of Ministers Resolution introducing mandatory green public procurement in Portugal. It is very detailed and prescriptive to and will definitely curtail the discretion of contracting authorities to organise their procurement procedures and contractual arrangements.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

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Furthermore, if the definition of growth season is geographically limited to Portugal then once more we're back to measures with equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction, since grow seasons vary throughout the EU, GPA parties and countries with a FTA with the EU. This will have a detrimental effect on innovation in food production.