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More than 40 municipal specifications for the procurement of wood products and have included
The Councillor for Environment and Urban Quality, Adela Martinez, Cache opened this morning's conference on 'The wood and forest certification in construction: ECOCONSTRUCTION', organized by the Association for Promoting Rational Use of Monte Products and Services Forest Stewardship (FSC) Council Spain and held in the building adjacent to City Hall.
This is the first meeting which is going to do about this issue in Spain and Murcia has been chosen to be, since June this year, "City in the woods" for its conduct committed with the environment.
The mayor has sought to encourage employers and Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia and Murcia to make contracts with environmental standards by encouraging businesses to seek solutions that respect the environment.
Thus, recalled that "the government must establish criteria for their policies of procurement of supplies, products and services, taking into account the effect on the environment. This means integrated into the procedures for awarding new criteria (environmental or energy ) in addition to traditional. "
In October 2007 a proclamation was passed in order to implement policies of environmental sustainability in the field of municipal powers, including within the award criteria contained in the various administrative clauses of the various types of contracts a criterion on "environmental quality."
Thus, in the case of the acquisition of wood or wood products that criterion will assess the environmental quality of certified wood use, excluding those proposed in the case of timber from illegal logging.
If purchasing paper is the endpoint shall take into account that the paper is recycled.
In recent years the council has approved a total of 44 specifications for purchase of wood products in which environmental criteria are included.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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