Ms Emma Kavanagh:

On the objective of the promotion of green and social procurement, one of the initiatives CRNI has launched in the last couple of years is a virtual trade fair to promote green and social procurement opportunities to public and private procurement decision-makers. We opened up a conversation around where the opportunities and considerations are when allowing social enterprises to fully engage in a procurement contract or to become part of a value chain that sees them delivering on part of a procurement opportunity. Social clauses are certainly part of that discussion. In the development of the corporate social responsibility directive, we have seen an increased interest in understanding how social enterprises can be part of that piece. Social clauses are something we welcome in those contracts, as well as flexibility with procurers in allowing and engaging social enterprises to be part of that process.