Public procurement: The French Parliament uses public procurement as a lever of the energy efficiency in adopting the Law relative to energy transition for green growth (Energy transition for green growth Act)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The action of public authorities is generally following a slope aimed at encouraging rational energy consumption. The energy transition - which combines energy efficiency by seeking to reduce energy consumption, and renewable energies, implies the use of various legal and financial levers. As a result, public law today is traversed by a dynamic that affects the missions of local authorities, urban planning rules, schemes drawn up at all territorial levels or public contracts (see O. Bonneau, F. Tesson, "Vers un droit public de l'économie d'énergie?", AJDA 2012, p. 2256). This inclination is particularly apparent in the law of 17 August 2015 on energy