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The experience of Fair Trade Procurement for the Municipality of Rome Paolo Agostini, Municipality of Rome Fair Procura Conference – Bruxelles 19 April 2007. Procurement for the school canteens. Contracts 2004-2007: 140.000 students (3-14 years old) involved
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The experience of Fair Trade Procurement for the Municipality of Rome Paolo Agostini, Municipality of Rome Fair Procura Conference – Bruxelles 19 April 2007
Procurement for the school canteens Contracts 2004-2007: • 140.000 students (3-14 years old) involved • over 100 million euro for the yearly amount (like the turnover of a main italian food company) • weight of the criteria for the contract awarding: 51% for the price, 49% for the project proposed to follow the specification
Procurement for the school canteens Priorities for the specification of the contracts: • food quality and students safety • support to the economical sectors involved in the sustainable development like organic products and fairtrade; such sectors are disadvantage by the global market logic focused on profits New Italian regulation for the public purchasing approved in april 2006: economical advantage subordinated to social and enviromental considerations and to the promotion of the sustainable development
Fairtrade products for 2004-07 • Weekly consumption: 280.000 bananas and 140.000 chocolats (both also organic) offered by the catering companies to reach the premium incentives • 3,3 million euro for the yearly fairtrade value (3% of the total value of the contracts) • Impacts on fairtrade: • increase of 10% for the fairtrade bananas quota on the total italian organic market • new worldshops in Rome and general increase of the fairtrade organization activities • improvement of the price for the producers of banana, cacao and sugar
Other incentives for the sustainable development • 70% of products are organic (of which 15% are also fairtrade) • preference to companies focused 100% on organic products • meat from slow growth animals • reduction in the plastic use (increase of ceramics) • differentiated waste disposal • reduction of noise in the canteen • recovery of not used food
The new contract for 2007-2012 • 145.000 meals/day • nearly 140 million euro for the yearly amount • improvements in the support to the sustainable development in terms of promotion of organizations and products attentive to social and enviromental aspects • confirmation of the greatest attention to the food safety
The new contract: fairtrade growth • fairtrade products obligatory (not more optional) • increase of the consumption: 290.000 bananas/ week, larger weight of chocolate for older students (nearly 3.900 kg/week of chocolate) • new biscuits (286.000 packages/week) composed with 30% of fairtrade ingredients (sugar, cacao, honey, tapioca) • around 30 million euro for the fairtrade total amount (5 years), corresponding to 4,3% of the total value of the contract
The new contract: other improvements • support to the social cooperatives employing disadvantaged people • plastic elimination; use of crockery to be recycled or made with biodegradable materials. Detergents with low enviromental impact. • support to the integration of immigrants: montly day with ethnic menu of the most important origin countries • new concept of guaranteed freshness for meat and some fruit and vegetables: aim to improve quality and to develope the local production