This page is for IPP related links. It includes sites that are directly related to IPP, as well as sites devoted to environmental product policies (EPPs) at the EU Member State level.

Content:

• EU
• Member States
• Research Institutes
  

• European Commission DG Environment IPP home page.
  Includes downloads of:
• Commission’s Communication on IPP (18th June 2003)
• the IPP Green Paper (February 2001)
• the second SPRU and Ernst & Young report: "Developing the Foundation for Integrated Product Policy in the EU" (June 2000)
• the executive summary of the original SPRU and Ernst & Young: "Integrated Product Policy Report" (March 1998) and
• the report from the IPP Workshop organised by DG Env on
  8 December 1998.
  
  
• European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development
  The European Consultative Forum is made up of NGOs, industry, business, consumers, local and regional authorities, trade unions, academia and other interests with the purpose of advising the Commission on policy development. See downloadable PDF report on IPP.
  

Austria

• Austrian National Environmental Plan.

Includes extensive use of product policy instruments.
 
• Austrian Eco-label.

 
• Ecodesign Knot.

 
• Austrian Ecodesign Website.

Includes information on the yearly ecodesign award.

• Waste Management in Belgium.

Includes information on product taxes.

• Product Panels.

 
• Danish Economic Instruments.

• German Federal Environment Ministry.

Under "Presidency of the EU Council", then under "downloads", it is possible to download the background paper and the President's conclusions for the 7-9 May 1999 Informal Meeting of EU Environmental Ministers, in Weimar, Germany. During the meeting IPP was given the go ahead.

• Third National Environmental Policy Plan.

Includes information on product-oriented environmental management systems.

• Swedish Government Communication:
  A Strategy for an Environmentally Sound Product Policy
  The communication sets out the Swedish government's position on IPP, and presents a strategy for how it should be implemented in Sweden, the EU and worldwide.
  
  
• Swedish EPA IPP home page.

 
• Swedish EPA IPP Enviro Report.

• DETR Consumer Products and the Environment.

 
• DETR Green Procurement.

Research Institutes

• The Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) gGmbH
  (Institute for Ecological Economy Research)

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