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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.

IMPEL TFS Conference 2011

Number: 2011/16
Status: Finalised
Period: 2011

The projects and activities of the TFS cluster 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...
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Lead Country:
TFS Secretariat

IMPEL TFS Conference 2010

Number: 2010/11
Status: Finalised
Period: 2010

The yearly IMPEL TFS conference brings together many delegates from many different organisations both from within IMPEL and those outside of our network to discuss better implementation and enforcement of legislation in the field of trans-frontier shipments of waste.
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Lead Country:
TFS Secretariat

Inspectors Exchange Days II

Number: 2009/06
Status: Finalised
Period: 2009

International cooperation and alignment is extremely important when it comes to the enforcement of the European Waste Shipment Regulations (WSR) 1013/2006. Previous IMPEL-TFS projects showed that it is very much needed to work together as competent authorities. The enforcement deficit of the WSR is serious and can only be tackled by joining forces on an international level and create an equal counterpart for the global waste trade and environmental criminals that act...

IMPEL TFS Annual Conference 2009

Number: 2009/05
Status: Finalised
Period: 2009

The projects and activities of the TFS cluster 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...

IMPEL workshop on the use of volatile organic compounds – VOC

Number: 2005/01
Status: Finalised
Period: 2005

During the IMPEL-workshop, information about VOC-regulations in the Directive and some national laws were presented to the participants. The main focus was the discussion of the prepared case studies in small working groups, which consisted of between 8 and 16 members each. The main results were:

there are partially great differences between the national regulations in the EU-MS.
there are still different interpretations of some terms (eg installation, fugitive emission).
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