The aim of the meeting was to favor the valorization of environmental certifications in the implementation of Green Public Procurement in Liguria Region according to the selected policy tool. The involved stakeholder was the Ufficio Ambiente (Environmental office) of Comune (Municipality) of Arcola (SP) dealing with green criteria in public tender drafting. Arcola is a medium sized Municipality, representative of the majority of the Ligurian Municipalities. The stakeholder meeting took place in Via Luigi Valentini 89/A (Ponte di Arcola), one of the secondary locations of the Municipality of Arcola. Due to unexpected events from both sides, at the stakeholder meeting attended only a researcher of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and the head of the environmental office. The meeting started with an introduction about Enhance project, then the meeting addressed several topics of the target office, such as:
- Internal functioning and organization of the Environmental Office of the Municipality of Arcola as public office in charge of public procurements;
- Level of knowledge and professional training on GPP;
- Perception by this public body about other bodies’ level of knowledge on GPP and level of interactions with them by the former about GPP criteria in public tenders;
- Sectors of high presence of GPP criteria;
- Main difficulties about implementation of GPP;
- Actions to be adopted to favour the application of the policy instrument chosen by SSSA for Enhance project.
