How to use eco-labels to procure sustainable furniture?

Sammanfattning: The research question of this thesis is how eco-labels can be used to procure sustainable furniture and to address what the limitations to the use of eco-labels are when contracting authorities procure furniture with environmental or sustainable objectives. There are three levels of limitations on the use of eco-labels in the Public Procurement Directive: the basic principles of public procurement, the conditions for the use of labels in Article 43, and the scope for the use of label requirements with environmental or social characteristics in the three criteria which allow to require labels. Eco-labels can be used in the procurement of sustainable furniture, to the extent that they do not violate the basic principles of public procurement. But it still requires a case-by-case analysis based on the conditions of the eco-label required.