Chapter 3

INTEGRATED PRODUCT POLICY - THE CONCEPT

IPP stands for Integrated Product Policy, the European Commission's long term environmental strategy for development of more sustainable products. The core issue in IPP is to stimulate life cycle oriented product development.
IPP advocates "life-cycle thinking", which means that measures for pollution reduction are searched for in the complete life cycle of the product - with specific focus on eliminating the environmental problem at the source. In principle, all products and services fall within the scope of the IPP.

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