European companies to be able to participate in public procurement in Moldova for environmental projects

Chisinau, 27 October /MOLDPRES/- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union with activity in the circular economy sector will be supported to take part in public procurement in Moldova, for environmental projects that require innovative solutions. For this, yesterday, in Chisinau, the project Supporting SMEs in the EU circular economy sector for participation in the public procurement system in the Eastern Partnership countries - P2GreenEST was launched, implemented by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).

The project  aims to ensure and improve the access of innovative European companies active in water management, waste management, energy efficiency to the public procurement process in our country by encouraging sustainable partnerships between SMEs, by providing advice and by supporting companies in circular economy in Moldova and Ukraine.

"In the fields of water management and waste management, the circular economy means the reuse of water in production processes, the recovery of waste and return to the circuit. Thus, from next year we start the construction of primary infrastructure to create the necessary logistics for waste collection, transportation and sorting at the national level, according to the eight waste management regions, and from private businesses it is necessary to develop the recycling market. We hope that the P2GreenEST project will strengthen the capacities of economic agents, will help them to progress in their activity by implementing the circular economy model ", Environment Minister Iuliana Cantaragiu said.

At the conference, an introductory presentation was made of the public procurement framework in circular economy in the Republic of Moldova, of the P2GreenEST project, including environmental programs and projects that require the application of innovative solutions from the private sector.

The project Supporting SMEs in the EU circular economy sector to participate in the public procurement system of the Eastern Partnership countries - P2GreenEST is part of the European Union's COSME program (COS-PROUT-2020-2-03 Supporting European companies to participate in procurement in non-EU countries). It is implemented by the CCI of the Republic of Moldova jointly with partners from Armenia, France, Romania, Spain and Ukraine on 1 July 2021 -31 December 2023.