Few contributors argue against any collective consideration of PPP aspects at EC level. Those that do cite the existence of a European Platform already dealing with issues such as PPPs, making a parallel discussion forum redundant, the need to deal first with the PPP-related issues highlighted in the "Report of the High Level Group on the Trans-European Network Group"19 and concern that collective consideration at EC level might lead to Community legislation on PPPs, thereby fostering an approach to this subject which the stakeholder concerned considers to be inappropriate.
Some contributors' support for collective consideration of PPP issues at EC level is conditional upon the participation of specific stakeholders such as representatives of local and regional government, civil society and employees.
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19 Accessible from the PPP website of the Directorate-General for the Internal Market and Services: (http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/publicprocurement/docs/ppp/2003_report_kvm_en.pdf).