Projects - Ireland

The EU-Regulation No. 259/93 (the Regulation) on the control of shipments of waste within, into and outside the European Union provides both the means for supervision of legitimate trade in waste and a requirement to deal with illegal traffic. The Regulation defines cases of illegal traffic but does not deal directly with how Competent Authorities should assess its extent or the means which, in practice, CAs employ to combat it.

In 2006 the Netherlands led an IMPEL Comparison Programme Doing the right things I. One of the main aims of this project was to explore how inspection authorities set priorities with regard to their tasks and activities, being one of the key steps in setting up inspection plans. An important recommendation of this project was to develop a practical guide on planning of environmental inspections, that would be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the different needs...

Neighourhood dialogues prevent, manage and resolve conflicts effectively and efficiently by building up trust, by looking for win-win solutions and by creating sustainable good neighbourhood relations. Their goal is to share information openly, to develop recommendations for the company and sometimes even to cooperate and negotiate to agree on a solution.

Experience has shown that this systematic communication approach leads to...

• Small installations;
• Verification;
• Compliance and enforcement; and
• Monitoring and reporting.

Dialogues and their results have to comply with the law. Legislation sets the framework but also the possibilities for discretion and for dialogue. Before initiating a dialogue process chances and risks should be assessed. The design of a neighbourhood dialogue should always be case specific – responding to the needs of the specific conflict situation.

Dialogues support conflict resolution between companies and neighbours. They...