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Projects - Cluster 3

Development of an IMPEL Multi Annual Strategic Programme (MASP)

  • Number: 2012/20
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
IMPEL's existing Multi Annual Working Programme (MAWP) 2007-10 was agreed in Espoo in 2006. This was extended by one year at the end of 2010 but is due to expire on the 31 December 2011. The IMPEL General Assembly has decided to develop a new MASP to succeed the MAWP.
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK - England & Wales

Choosing appropriate interventions alongside inspections to ensure compliance and achieve environmental outcomes

  • Number: 2012/19
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
There is increasing interest in the European Union member states in using complementary interventions alongside traditional methods such as environmental inspections to improve the implementation and compliance of environmental legislation and deliver better environmental outcomes. In 2011, an IMPEL Project was carried out on “Exploring the use and effectiveness of complementary approaches to inspection for ensuring compliance”. The project identified a number of approaches that are being...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK - England & Wales

Using the IMPEL Practicability and Enforceability Checklist to assess the Waste Shipment Regulation

  • Number: 2011/15
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2011
In order to encourage policymakers, legislators and stakeholders to devote more attention to likely problems of practicability in implementation and enforceability throughout the legislative process, with a view to anticipating and remedying practicability and enforceability problems through a pro-active approach, IMPEL has produced a practical checklist to assess the practicability and enforceability of existing and new legislation with the aim of improving the overall implementation of EU environmental...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK - England & Wales

Exploring the use and effectiveness of complementary approaches to inspection for ensuring compliance

  • Number: 2011/22
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2011
As part of the better regulation agenda, there is an increasing interest in using complementary measures to traditional regulation methods to deliver improved environmental outcomes, but little evidence of their effectiveness.
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Engaging stakeholders around priority implementation issues for EU law for 2012 to 2015

  • Number: 2011/23
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
One of the Commission’s key priorities is the effective implementation of EU law.  As a network of regulatory practitioners IMPEL is ideally placed to help improve implementation of EU law through the practical knowledge and experience of its members.  This project will engage key stakeholders – including IMPEL members, other environmental authorities, industry, NGOs, European Commission and other networks –  to discuss priority areas and identify issues and potential areas of activity for...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Practicability and enforceability of the 2008 Recast Proposal of the WEEE Directive

  • Number: 2009/11
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2009

Drawing on the work of the IMPEL Better Regulation Cluster to develop and use a checklist on the practicability and enforceability (P&E) of legislation, the TFS Cluster carried out an assessement of the Recast of the WEEE Directive. Initially views from IMPEL members were collected via a questionnaire and on 27 April 2009 a workshop was held at the new IMPEL offices in Brussels to discuss the findings.

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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Practical Application of Better Regulation Principles in Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Environmental Inspection Authorities

  • Number: 2009/04
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2009
Fifty examples of initiatives were received from 14 countries in response to a questionnaire.  These included initiatives to improve permitting, inspection, and monitoring as well as broader initiatives that spanned the whole regulatory cycle.  The wide range of approaches reported reflects the different regulatory and legal structures and contexts in the Member States, such as the different relationships between permitting and inspection bodies. A number of trends in better regulation approaches...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Common Regulatory Frameworks in Member States – Comparison Project

  • Number: 2010/16
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
Better regulation initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness whilst maintaining or improving levels of environment protection are increasingly being used by environmental inspectorates in Member States often in response to challenges such as limited resources and increasing pressures on the environment. The prevailing economic conditions and heightened interest in the actual or perceived impacts of regulation are also powerful influences, particularly with respect to enterprise and industry. ...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Emission Trading: Proposals for future development of the EU ETS – Phase II & beyond

  • Number: 2007/9
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2007
Member State governments, regulators, operators and verifiers have been on a steep learning curve over the last two years since commencement of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The experience gained during this time will be invaluable in shaping the future development of the scheme. Furthermore the Commission announced that it will undertake a review of the Directive and this presented an opportunity for Member State Competent Authorities to influence the future development of the scheme...
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  • Lead Country:
  • United Kingdom

Practicability and Enforceability of the IPPC Recast Proposal

  • Number: 2007/13
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2007
The report highlights a wide range of P&E issues. The project has been careful to avoid issues of a more political nature (also of interest to IMPEL members) which should be addressed through the usual procedure of the legislators in the co-decision process. Most IMPEL members generally stressed their positive views on the changes in the Recast Proposal affecting P&E, recognizing the work that had been undertaken to achieve this leading to the streamlining of the current pieces of legislation...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands