The roundtable meeting Best practices in sustainable public procurement of IT hardware in Europe is the fifth in a series of six meetings that are organised by Procure IT Fair. The idea of these meetings is to provide involved IT industry stakeholders with a platform to discuss sustainable procurement of IT hardware. The 31 March roundtable in Amsterdam focused specifically on sharing best practices and the role of resellers and service providers in the sustainable procurement of IT hardware. The meeting also offered an opportunity to critically focus on the ambitious approach that is currently being advocated by Procure IT Fair.
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