Circular declarations as a versatile policy- and procurement tool

Purpose and goal:

The overall aim is to establish circular declarations as a generally useful policy tool that provides a comprehensive picture of a product´s circular performance and an effective procurement tool that can demonstrate the climate benefit when procuring circular products. Circular declarations as a policy instrument should be able to form a basis that describes a product´s "circular performance".

Circular declarations as a procurement tool must be able to constitute a fact-based accepted basis that a supplier must be able to provide as a tenderer. Expected results and effects:

Circular declarations as a policy tool have good potential to become a planning tool, for example regarding the proportion of recycled material, the possibility of reuse, expected life, content of chemical substances and warranty commitments.

Circular declarations as a procurement tool have good opportunities to provide information on many aspects linked to a product´s circular properties so that they can report climate benefits in the form of reduced emissions of greenhouse gases as a result of different amounts of recycled material in the products offered by tenderers.

Approach and implementation:

Step 1: Contact with industry organizations to inform about circular declarations as a possible policy tool for all purposes Step 2: Contacts with various industries to identify relevant criteria about products´ circular properties Step 3: Compile various product-specific circular additional requirements as Annex in PCR document

Step 4: Introducera PCR with circular additional requirements within the Act on climate declarations for buildings

Step 5: Describe PCR with circular additional requirements for various product groups on the website https://upphandlingspanelen.se