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Projects - France

DECO Project – IMPEL Project on decontamination and monitoring procedures of groundwater and soils in polluted ex-industrial sites

  • Number: 2013/05
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
Soil is one of the four natural elements fundamental for life of humans, plants and animals. Due to historical industrialization processes, Europe has some of the most contaminated soils and groundwater in the world, and its protection is a priority for many European environmental authorities. The European Union created during the years a regulatory environment in order to protect soil and groundwater: the Landfill Directives (1999/31/EC), the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), the Environmental...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Italy (Lombardia)

Lessons learnt from accidents seminar

  • Number: 2013/04
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
9 seminars on lessons learnt from industrial accidents have been held in the recent past, in order to ease the dissemination and exchange of information between inspecting bodies of the member states. This 2 day seminar will bring together approximately 250 participants from a large cross section of EU member states and other European non-EU member states. In former 'Lessons Learnt' seminars, inspectors have presented approximately 15 selected accidents by giving technical descriptions and the results...
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  • Lead Country:
  • France

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

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

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)

8th General Assembly

[ November 24, 2011 to November 25, 2011. ] The 8th IMPEL General Assembly will take place in Warsaw, Poland between the 24-25 November 2011. Novotel Centrum Warszawa 94/98 Marszałkowska Street Warsaw

Cluster 1 meeting

[ March 24, 2011 to March 25, 2011. ] IMPEL’s Cluster 1 will meet in Budapest on March 24/25 2011.

Resolution of environmental conflict through Neighbourhood Dialogue, phase 4

  • Number: 2010/04
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
The focus of the project was to promote the use of neighbourhood dialogues as an instrument for the solution of environmental conflicts by developing concise step-by-step instructions based on the “Toolkit” and the “Self-Evaluation Guidelines” and testing them on live cases (to see previous Neighbourhood Dialogue projects). The project aimed to:
  • Develop a PowerPoint presentation and instructions which can be used...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Development of an easy and flexible risk assessment tool as a part of the planning of environmental inspections linked to European environmental law and the RMCEI (easyTools), phase 2

  • Number: 2011/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
The aim of the new project is to develop a flexible and user friendly programme for the risk assessment within the planning of environmental inspections as an application from the internet. The risk assessment tool will be part of the “planning cycle” described in the “Step by step guidance book for planning of environmental inspection” developed by the “Doing The Right Things” project (DTRT). It will take into account the needs of the IMPEL member countries as well as the requirements...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Exploring qualitative and quantitative assessment tools to evaluate the performance of environmental inspectorates across the EU

  • Number: 2011/08
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
This project follows on from two previous IMPEL projects (Brainstorming on indicators and Indicators Pilot project). The first project collated a long list of indicators used in Member States and selected a small number for further testing in the second project.  The Pilot project then tested these indicators in a small number of volunteer Member States. It concluded that setting general indicators as a stand alone tool with the aim of comparing the performance of inspecting authorities in the EU...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK