The NAP on GPP promotes the use of EU GPP criteria. Moreover, Greece has set out mandatory requirements to use GPP for certain procurement categories: copying and graphic paper, computers and monitors, imaging equipment, LED lamps for interior lighting, air conditioning machines, lubricants (regenerated and biodegradable), road transport, road lighting and traffic signals.
Greece has also defined GPP-related targets. Notably, GPP targets differ across procurement categories. It varies from 20% for some categories to 80% for some other categories. Most of the categories have a GPP target set at 50%.
GPP mandatory requirements and targets apply to all contracting authorities. More precisely, public procurement practitioners across all levels of government will have to gradually adopt at least the core criteria presented in the Annex to the NAP on GPP, both for mandatory and the non-mandatory categories. In the first year, the requirement applies only to governmental public authorities. In the second year, it applies also to non-governmental public authorities (i.e. municipalities and regions), while in the third year, the requirement will expand to all remaining public authorities. Greek authorities have defined:
1. The quantitative targets for the years 2021-2023, in terms of the mandatory and non-mandatory implementation of public contracts categories, related to the procurement of certain goods and services;
2. The dates of activation, as regards to the specific levels of government obligated to implement the relative green criteria: 1 January 2021 and on for central governmental authorities, 1 January 2022 for the rest of the contracting authorities, and 1 January 2023 for domestic contracting entities.
