ISO/PC 277
Sustainable purchasing
Sustainable purchasing
The aim of the future ISO standard
Assisting organizations in
integrating the economic constraints
and the principles and issues
of social responsibility as described in ISO 26000
within the purchasing process,
independently of their activity or size
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Which standards exist already?
● ISO 9001: procurement aspects related to quality
● ISO 14001: procurement aspects related to environmental issues
● SA 8000: procurement aspects related to working condition and human rights
● Standards (and Audit programmes) decribing specific procedures and supply
chain approaches (usually limited to social or environmental issues):
 BSCI
 Fair
wear foundation
 WRAP
 FSC
 Bio-Labels
 etc.
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Référence
Why is purchasing important in ISO 26000 ?
● Purchasing is a major « sphere of influence » in public and private
organizations
●Purchasing is objectively a priority in the implementation of any social
responsibility policy
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For example, GDP in OECD countries is mostly made of intercompanies exchanges via decisions made by the purchasers

Income statements of big companies show that purchasing can
represent a great part of the turnover

Public procurement of OECD countries is about 9% of the country’s
GDP
● Is a SR policy which does not take into account sustainable purchasing
credible ?
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Sustainable purchasing
How?
Providing standardization of principles and guidelines
not only for procurement Units and Top Managers
but also for stakeholders dealing with purchasing
processes
both internally and externally
(for instance: suppliers, contractors, procurement units,
buyers, local authorities …)
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How is an International standard made?
ISO
International level
National delegations
ABNT
DIN
AFNOR
SNV
Brazil
Germany
France
Switzerland
… (Other
National
Standardization
bodies)
National standardization body
Experts
Industry and commerce, consumers, NGOs, standard users,
governments, academic and research bodies, labour, public procurement …
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Sustainable purchasing
ISO/PC 277
Created by ISO/TMB during its meeting of February 2013
Led, in the framework of a twinning arrangement, by
AFNOR (France), and ABNT (Brazil):
French Chairman and Brazilian Vice-Chairman
French and Brazilian co-secretaries
1st meeting to be held in Paris at the end of September
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Sustainable purchasing
Membership of ISO/PC 277
24 participating countries
(Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Côte
d’Ivoire, Denmark, Finland, France, Gabon, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Nigeria,
Norway, Serbia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States)
12 observing countries
(Armenia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic
of Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Spain, Thailand)
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Sustainable purchasing
Liaisons to be established
●External:
UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
WTO Government Procurement Agreement
IFPSM International Federation of Purchasing and
Supply Management
●Internal:
ISO/TC
59 Buildings and civil engineering works (SN)
which developed the ISO 10845 series on Construction
procurement
●Any further suggestion would be welcome
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Standard on Sustainable purchasing
Proposed content
Made of 2 parts:
●Part 1 : Policy - Strategy
Define the sustainable purchasing policy in accordance with the 7 core subjects of ISO
26000:
•
For purchasing management/departments and Senior Management, and for all
of the internal and external stakeholders in the purchasing process
•
For private and public organizations
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For all types of organizations, irrespective of their activity or their size
●Part 2 : Operational deployment
Present operational recommendations for the stages of the purchasing process
• For purchasing departments, purchasers and/or other associated functions
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Part 1: Policy - Strategy
● Purchasing in relation to the seven core subjects of ISO 26000
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Part 2: Operational deployment
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Standard on Sustainable purchasing
Work schedule: 2 to 3 years
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Default track without
FDIS
Committee draft
F
DIS
Default track FDIS
Committee draft
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DIS
Time for ISO/PC 277:
Draft of the future standard
by the members of ISO/PC 277
Sustainable Purchasing
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Time for ISO Central
Secretariat:
Review, and editing of the draft,
proofing, publishing
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Preparation for
FDIS
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FDIS P
Time for ISO member bodies:
The draft is circulated to all
the ISO member bodies for
enquiry / vote
ISO Standard on Sustainable Purchasing
Thank you for your attention !
For any further information:
Dr. Clemens LANG
Chairman of SNV PC 277 and
ISO 26000 Swiss Mirror Committee
CSR senior consultant, Neosys Ltd.
Tel. : +41 31 351 98 66
clemens.lang@neosys.ch
or Laurence DOUVILLE, AFNOR, laurence.douville@afnor.org
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