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Green Procurement
The government's Policy on Green Procurement, effective April 1, 2006, established environmental performance considerations as a key factor in procurement decisions that occur throughout the lifecycle of assets and acquired services. The objective of the Policy on Green Procurement is to advance protection of the environment and support sustainable development by integrating environmental performance considerations into procurement decision-making processes.
The Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists (ORL) is a small organization compared with most federal government departments and agencies. From the time it became a separate entity in February 2006, the ORL has been establishing administrative and financial processes and service arrangements, as well as increasing its staff.
During the next planning period,ORL will focus on evaluating its buying patterns. This should provide a basis for establishing measurable green procurement targets for subsequent years.
Even though it has not yet established green procurement targets, the ORL is contributing to protection of the environment by using green procurement standing offers whenever possible, buying high-content recycled paper, and recycling spent batteries as well as empty toner cartridges used in office printers. Other initiatives include printing the ORL's annual report and investigation reports on 100% recycled paper, double-sided printing of documents whenever possible, circulating documents of interest and/or making them available on a shared computer drive rather than printing multiple copies for internal distribution, and using the ORL's web site as the preferred means for public distribution of information and corporate publications.