GPP4Growth

The team of Stara Zagora Regional Economic Development Agency (SZREDA) received recognition for its work. An international workshop that generated zero waste as an event was published as a good practice in the INTERREG Europe Platform platform that aims to exchange useful experience across the EU.

In the third semester of the project GPP4Growth, co-funded under INTERREG Europe as part of the project activities, SZREDA hosted an international thematic workshop on the implementation of environmental criteria in Green Public Procurement in Stara Zagora. The event lasted 2 days (May 16-17, 2018) and all GPP4Growth partners participated with members of their stakeholder groups and external experts. On May 16, in addition to the partners and their stakeholders, SZREDA invited local stakeholders from the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Transport, the Executive Environment Agency, the National Forest Agency and the managing authority of one of the operational programs in Bulgaria, which is part of the Ministry of Economy.

Dear reader,

Welcome to the fifth edition of the Newsletter series of the GPP4Growth project!

GPP4Growth is a European project funded by the INTERREG Europe Programme that aims to create opportunities for public authorities to stimulate eco-innovation, resource efficiency & green growth through Green Public Procurement (GPP).

The team of Stara Zagora Regional Economic Development Agency (SZREDA) received recognition for its work. A good practice that has been identified by the Agency in the scope of the GPP4Growth project has been approved and uploaded in the website of the project in the INTEEREG Europe platform. This means that the good practice from Bulgaria can be identified by any organization in the EU and transferred as inspiration from Bulgarian experience.

The title of the good practice is: From November 1, 2018, the Bulgarian administration stopped the paper exchange of documents