Public Food Procurement Guidelines
The guidelines on public food procurement, promoted in collaboration with the Contracting Department, the Urban Ecology Department and other municipal stakeholders, will serve as a pioneering tool to guide all Barcelona City Council's public food procurement, in a cross-cutting and comprehensive way. In this update, alongside other new items of an environmental nature, new local and seasonal criteria have been introduced, within the mandatory European regulatory framework, and in line with the productive potential of the land and as a contribution to tackling the climate emergency. The criteria, incorporated in a cross-cutting way are the following:
- Increase in vegetable-protein foods, and reduction in animal protein food
- Reduction of added sugars and ultra-processed products
- Food from ecological agriculture (EA))
- Fresh seasonal food
- Food with a short market circuit
- High-quality food
- Fair trade food;
- Environmental quality of vehicle fleet
- CO2 emissions associated with transport
- Waste
- Training
- Special work centres, integration centres, and social and solidarity economy (outsourcing)