Miljökrav vid offentlig upphandling - Om möjligheten för en upphandlande myndighet att ställa miljökrav vid offentlig upphandling, genom tillämpningen av Europeiska unionens reglering.

Sammanfattning: Public procurement, within the European Union, accounts for a total of 14% of the Union's GDP. Due to the fact that public procurement constitutes a large part of the Union's GDP, the use of environmentally smart public procurement is an important factor in reaching the Union's ambitious climate goals. The essay will deal with the legal rules and legal principles that have arisen as a result of the legal rules, which are important to have an understanding of, to understand why public procurement is regulated as it is. Furthermore, the essay will examine what opportunities a procuring authority has to set environmental requirements during the procurement procedure, partly on the product or service to be procured and partly on the supplier. From what emerged from the essay, a procuring authority has good opportunities to take environmental considerations into account during a public procurement. A procuring authority can choose to set several different types of requirements and criteria on both the product or service and on the supplier, so that the procurement is as environmentally positive as possible. The conclusion also discusses whether there should be a requirement for a public authority to make use of environmentally adapted procurement. Currently, the possibility exists, but given the high environmental goals that are set within the Union, it should reasonably be a rule, rather than an opportunity, to make use of environmentally smart public procurement.