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This EU LIFE2014 European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP) report follows up the initial European Textiles & Workwear Market: The role of Public Procurement in making textiles circular report. The market report published in June 2017 identified the potential benefits of more circular procurement of workwear and textiles in EU Member States. ECAP aims to use the drivers for wider EU green public procurement to generate demand pull for sustainable and circular public procurement in clothing.

This report seeks to summarise opportunities and barriers to cascading emerging knowledge and implementation of circular procurement principles across the European Community. It analyses the role of EU procurement National Action Plans and GPP criteria in supporting the ECAP aim. It also examines the potential for other instruments, such as policy, economic, procurement and capacity building, to be used to deliver the benefits associated with the procurement and supply of more circular workwear products.