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Projects - Czech Republic

Emission Trading: Identifying Good Regulatory Practice In The EU Emissions Trading Scheme

  • Number: 2004/11
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2004
The project on which this report is based set out to identify good regulatory practice in relation to the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), which was established by Directive 2003/87/EC, and to inform the second phase of the EU ETS. It was organised through IMPEL and the information analysed in the project was obtained using a questionnaire that was distributed to regulatory authorities in a number of EU Member States. The questionnaire was finalised on the basis of discussions held at an initial...
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  • Lead Country:
  • United Kingdom

Consideration of Human Health Through IPPC

  • Number: 2004/10
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2003 - 2004
The key findings of this project are:
  • Applicants should be provided with guidance for the assessment of health through IPPC.
  • Strict compliance with ambient health based Environmental Quality Standards (EQSs) is necessary to ensure health protection.
  • Local sensitive receptors can justify more in depth assessments even if health based EQSs are not being exceeded.
  • Where EQSs are being exceeded then a maximum of 12 months should be allowed for improvements...

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  • Lead Country:
  • United Kingdom

Waste related Conditions in Environmental Permits

  • Number: 2003/16
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2003
The report compiles a number of good examples of permit conditions which address amongst others, measures to minimise waste, substitution of raw materials, handling and disposal of waste as well as audits and assessments.
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  • Lead Country:
  • Finland

Information Exchange on e-Reporting

  • Number: 2003/15
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2003
The project concluded that: The benefits accruing from e-reporting are better transparency and better quality information that is more easily analysed, manipulated and reported on to both institutional bodies and the public. There is no technological barrier to the implementation of e-reporting systems. The difficulties in implementing these systems relate to the specification of the information to be collected and identifying in advance the subsequent uses of this information. While e-reporting...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Ireland

IMPEL Better Legislation Project – Effective Enforcement Needs a Good Legal Base

  • Number: 2003/13
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2003
The project was established to examine the challenges that IMPEL members have faced in the practical implementation of EU legislation and suggest recommendations for legislative improvement. It involved gathering information on the experience of implementing EU legislation from IMPEL members through a questionnaire, and discussing the results and developing conclusions through project meetings. It covered a range of issues relating to the practical implementation of legislation, such as clarity,...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Comparison programme: Condoning – Compliance promotion – Communication – ISO/EMAS – One page permits

  • Number: 2001/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2001
The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment from the Netherlands hosted the third Comparison Programme in the new series. The Netherlands called inspectors from the EU countries and inspectors from the candidate AC countries to participate in the Comparison Programme on October 25th up to October 28th in Haarlem capital city of the province of North Holland. During the programme and at the end of the meeting the participants were asked to give their opinion on the Programme, the content...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

Integrated Pollution Control, Compliance and Enforcement of EU Environmental legislation to Industries (IPPC and non IPPC) of the Food Production/Processing Sector

  • Number: 2001/01
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2001
Three food sub-sectors of interest were identified during the initial phase of the project: milk industry, meat processing, and breweries. Data on those sub-sectors were collected using a Questionnaire that was circulated among the IMPEL and AC-IMPEL Network (National Coordinators). Some of the main conclusions are:
  • The meat processing and the milk industry are among the most important food industry sub-sectors in the majority of the EU and AC.
  • In comparison with other industry...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Greece

Workshop on Integrated Permitting

  • Number: 2000/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2000
Some of the important conclusions were:
  • The permits should be precise and unambiguous.
  • An Interpretation and Glossary of Terms should be included in the permits.
  • All permits should require monitoring by the permitted facility and the Regulator should also carry out some monitoring.
  • EMS may or may not be appropriate for all operators. The EMS reporting workload may cause problems for Inspectors but can play a vital role in an Improvements Programme.
  • BREF...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Ireland

Workshop on the Use of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Industrial Plants

  • Number: 2000/03
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2000
The conclusions that could be drawn from the workshop were:
  • The VOC-directive is a starting point in the right direction, but its implementation has to be monitored and the obligation for soil-gas-analysis has to be amended.
  • The different technical standard in the MS and AC requires harmonisation in form of BAT or EN-documents.
  • Tighter national regulations/standards must still exist beneath VOC - directive
  • Generally there is an urgent need for information...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Austria