For this reason, it requires broad stakeholder participation. The 2001 EC Green Paper called for the creation of product panels comprised of producers, consumers and other stakeholders. According to the European Commission (2001), Such panels can be set up in various formats and need to be adapted to the issues considered. Such issues may concern the overall environmental performance of specific products or product groups but also specific issues for one or several product groups (e.g. the reduction of hazardous substances in particular products or product groups). It is far too early to make too many definitive conclusions about IPP, especially since it is likely to improve over time. A number of criticisms have already been directed at itparticularly the fact that the EC Green Paper overly focuses on innovation at the