French Public procurement code
In forceLocal authorities and purchasers subject to this code whose status is laid down by law shall adopt a scheme to promote socially and environmentally responsible public purchasing when the total annual value of their purchases exceeds an amount set by regulation.
This plan determines the objectives of a purchasing policy that includes social elements aimed at contributing to the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged workers and ecological elements, as well as the procedures for implementing and monitoring these objectives on an annual basis. This plan also contributes to the promotion of a circular economy. It is made public in particular by being posted on the website, where one exists, of the contracting authorities and entities mentioned in the first paragraph.
This plan includes precise indicators, expressed in terms of the number of contracts or value and published every two years, on the actual rates of public purchases falling into the categories of socially and environmentally responsible purchasing among the public purchases made by the local authority or purchaser concerned. It specifies the target objectives to be achieved for each of these categories, in particular those relating to purchases from socially responsible enterprises approved within the meaning of article L. 3332-17-1 of the Labour Code, on the one hand, or from enterprises employing disadvantaged people or belonging to vulnerable groups, on the other.
