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Public Procurement - Horizon Scanner: Infrastructure, Construction, Energy, October 2025

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Under the Net-Zero Industry Act, the Commission is required to specify minimum mandatory requirements regarding environmental sustainability for public procurement procedures...

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Procurement of Clean Technologies

Under the Net-Zero Industry Act, the Commission is required to specify minimum mandatory requirements regarding environmental sustainability for public procurement procedures in scope of the Public Procurement Directives, where contracts have the net-zero technologies listed in Article 4(1), points (a) to (k) of the Net-Zero Industry Act as part of their subject matter and for works contracts and concessions including those net-zero technologies. The Commission is consulting until 14 October 2025 on an implementing regulation: Public procurement of clean technologies – minimum requirements on environmental sustainability.

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