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Projects - Italy

IRI Italy (Lombardia)

  • Number: 2012/01
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries. It was set up to implement the European Parliament and Council Recommendation (2001/331/EC) providing for minimum criteria for environmental inspections (RMCEI), where it states: “Member States should assist each other administratively in operating this Recommendation.  The establishment by Member States in cooperation with IMPEL of reporting and advice schemes relating...
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  • Italy (Lombardia)

Reinforcement programme on inspection skills according to Landfill sites in IMPEL member countries, phase 2

  • Number: 2012/03
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
Improving implementation of EU law is a high priority objective of both the European Commission and IMPEL. Questionnaires that were circulated within IMPEL in December 2010 and June 2011 showed that 50% of countries have a lack of knowledge to fulfil inspection requirements, specially on new-to-build landfill sites. There was strong support for the idea of exchanging knowledge and learning from each other. In European projects of landfill construction (based on European funding) it is obligatory...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands and Italy

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 Conference 2012

  • Number: 2012/13
  • Status: Running
  • 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

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.

Comparison Programme on the implementation and enforcement of Air Quality standards in relation to industrial air emissions (PIAQ) (Comparison Programme Implementation Air Quality standards and industrial air emissions)

  • Number: 2010/07
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010/11
The air quality directive and its daughter directives have been implemented in EU member states in the past years. In 2007, an earlier IMPEL project (with Austria as lead partner) made it possible to exchange expertise in licensing of installations in ambient air polluted zones, based on an inquiry in some member states. A limited scope study in 2009 showed that directives have been implemented in practice in different ways in different IMPEL member states. Contacts between experts in these countries...
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  • Lead Country:
  • The Netherlands

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: Running
  • 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: Running
  • 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