15/04/2003
IPP - Integrated Product Policy

Given:
• the specificity of the food products, ingested by the consumers, and the resulting heavy regulation already existing on food and drink products,
• the risk of interference between existing legal requirements and possible new requirements created by IPP, and the confusion resulting for the consumer,
• the numerous voluntarily steps the food and drink companies have been taking to continuously meet consumer needs in an environmentally sound and sustainable manner,

CIAA considers that food products should be excluded from the scope of IPP.

The European food and drink industry is firmly committed to the continuous improvement of its product and process performance along the principles of sustainable development, including economic, environmental and social dimensions. Therefore we believe that the IPP strategy, as developed by DG Environment, is based on the wrong approach while considering environmental performance as the sole priority.

Moreover, the European food and drink industry is strongly of the opinion that the food products should be explicitly excluded from the scope of IPP due to their specificities.

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