Austria | IMPEL

Linking the Water Framework and IPPC/IE Directives, phase 3

Number: 2013/11
Status: Running
Period: 2013

The IPPC Directive 2008/1/EC (now IED 2010/75/EU) and Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC are two of the most wide-reaching items of EU environmental law. They have presented many challenges to the Member States. Installations regulated under IPPC may impact on the water environment, such as through direct or indirect discharges of pollutants, water abstraction, etc. IPPC requires installations to operate to conditions in permits compliant with Best Available Techniques (BAT). They are also required...
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Lead Country:
Austria

Environmental inspections of industrial installations in accordance with the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) – Drawing up of IRAM related inspection programmes

Number: 2013/08
Status: Running
Period: 2013

On 6 January 2011 the Industrial Emissions Directive entered into force, and its provisions listed in Article 80(1) have to be transposed into national law within two years. The IED sets new requirements on the inspection of industrial installations as described in Article 23 of the Directive. The obligations on routine environmental inspections constitute a new challenge for the EU member states.
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Lead Country:
Germany and UK (Scotland)

The implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment on the basis of precise examples

Number: 2012/09
Status: Finalised
Period: 2012

The Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA Directive was adopted in 1985 and was first amended in 1997^{^[1]}. The EIA procedure ensures that the environmental consequences of projects are identified and assessed before authorisation is given. The public can give its opinion and all results are taken into account in the authorisation procedure of the project....
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Lead Country:
Austria

Waste Sites, phase 2

Number: 2012/18
Status: Finalised
Period: 2012

Under Article 34(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste, establishments or undertakings which carry out waste treatment operations, establishments or undertakings which collect or transport waste on a professional basis, brokers and dealers, and establishments or undertakings which produce hazardous waste shall be subject to appropriate periodic inspections by the competent authorities. Recent discussions in IMPEL-TFS and among high-level inspectors have addressed, among other things, the necessity...
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Lead Country:
Germany

IMPEL TFS Conference 2012

Number: 2012/13
Status: Finalised
Period: 2012

The projects and activities of IMPEL Cluster 2 are based on the European Waste Shipment Regulation Nº 1013/2006. Being a Regulation and including a cross-border aspect, it is of high importance to have an active and practical European network of inspectors and regulators that meet on a regular basis to exchange practical experiences. Not only environmental inspectors, but also Customs and Police officers and the Judiciary. Ongoing IMPEL-TFS projects continue to show the need for establishing and...
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Lead Country:
Cluster 2 Secretariat and UK

Energy Efficiency in permitting and inspections, phase 3

Number: 2012/04
Status: Running
Period: 2012

In part 2 of the IMPEL project: “Energy Efficiency in Permitting and Inspection,” the project team consisting of 6 representatives from 5 IMPEL Member States and the consultant made an analysis of major changes from IPPC to Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), discussed the new BAT concept under IED and identified relevant IED provisions related to energy efficiency. They: - identified the basic documents to be reviewed during the project, - decided...
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Lead Country:
Germany

Linking the Water Framework Directive and IPPC/IED Directive, phase 3

Number: 2012/08
Status: Running
Period: 2012

The IPPC Directive 2008/1/EC (replaced by IED 2010/75/EU by end of 2012) and Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC are two of the most wide-reaching items of EU environmental law. They have presented many challenges to the Member States. Installations regulated under IPPC may impact on the water environment, such as through direct or indirect discharges of pollutants, water abstraction, etc. IPPC requires installations to operate to conditions in permits compliant with Best Available Techniques (BAT)....
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Lead Country:
Netherlands and Austria

IMPEL TFS Enforcement Actions III

Number: 2012/15
Status: Running
Period: 2012

This project will run until the spring of 2014 and will encourage best practice in waste shipment inspections through a series of coordinated inspections and exchanges. The inspections under this project will take place during three periods in both 2012 and 2013. A ‘chain’ (from site of loading to site of recovery) approach to inspection will be used to verify environmentally sound management of waste shipments. Enforcement tools will also be developed as part of this project to encourage...
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Lead Country:
UK

Transfrontier shipment of e-waste

Number: 2010/18
Status: Finalised
Period: 2010/11

The main objectives of this project were to:

To deliver an up to date threat assessment that identifies how effectively the WEEE Directive is being implemented in Member States and the risks e-waste exports pose to the EU
To understand the scope and scale of the e-waste export trade in Europe, who is involved and what happens to shipments leaving Europe and what the problems are that occur in the countries of destination
To develop and provide to IMPEL TFS members...

Enforcement Actions Interim Project

Number: 2011/25
Status: Finalised
Period: 2011

The Waste Shipment Regulation (1013/2006/EC) requires Member States to inspect shipments of waste and to co-operate with each other. The Enforcement Actions project was set up for the following reasons: - Some Member States expressed the need for a formalised project framework in order to integrate this with the enforcement inspections in their own countries; - International cooperation is essential to tackle international environmental problems; and - The network of enforcers in the field...
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Lead Country:
UK (Scotland)

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