Background report to the guide for the use of the EU Ecolabel :In the green public procurement of hard covering products (of natural stone, agglomerated stone, ceramic or precast concrete)

The EU GPP recommendations placed in this document are based on the EU Ecolabel criteria and intend to provide authorities with guidance on how to use ecolabels, and in particular the EU Ecolabel, in the procurement process. This report aims to bring these two policies together in order to find synergies between the supply-side EU Ecolabel policy and the demand-side EU GPP policy specifically for the procurement of hard covering products made of natural stone, agglomerated stone, ceramics/fired clay or precast concrete.