The European commission started to define a new environment strategy in the year 1997, which is called the “Integrated Product Policy” or IPP. This new approach is a bigger change compared to the environment protection of the last 30 years that has mostly been an action of the last phases of the product lifecycle based on laws and regulations. With the old focus the output of emission sources were reduced significantly for the better. Yet further progress is more and more limited because of technical and economical reasons. Therefore the environment ministers of the European Union discussed IPP at a Council in Weimar in the year 1999 and decided that IPP is essential towards a sustainable development in Europe. As a result the European Commission adopted a Green Paper on IPP with the objective of launching a debate on the role and possible measures that could be taken on a European Union basis.     «

The European commission started to define a new environment strategy in the year 1997, which is called the “Integrated Product Policy” or IPP. This new approach is a bigger change compared to the environment protection of the last 30 years that has mostly been an action of the last phases of the product lifecycle based on laws and regulations. With the old focus the output of emission sources were reduced significantly for the better. Yet further progress is more and more limited because of tech...     »