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Projects - Netherlands

IMPEL-TFS Prosecutor Project, phase 2

  • Number: 2013/24
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
The compliance deficit of the Basel Convention and the European Waste Shipment Regulation (1013/2006) or ‘WSR’ is very serious and past experience indicates that we are dealing with organised crime in many cases. Figures indicate that about 20% of all waste shipments are in violation. Prosecution of environmental crime is a national competence. The differences in approach and the number of convictions in European countries are significant. There appears to be a lack of communication between...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

IMPEL-TFS Best Practice meeting 2013

  • Number: 2013/23
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
International cooperation and alignment is very important when it comes to the enforcement of the European Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) (EC) No 1013/2006. Previous IMPEL-TFS projects have shown that it is important to work together as competent authorities. The enforcement deficit of the EU waste shipment regulation remains challenge. To improve the collaboration and alignment of enforcement, frequent contact between the European enforcement authorities is necessary. Therefore it would be very...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands and Czech Republic

Waste Shipments and Management Conference 2013

  • Number: 2013/20
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
The projects and activities of the TFS cluster are based on the European Waste Shipment Regulation (EC) Nº 1013/2006 (WSR). 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...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands & TFS Secretariat

Waste Sites II

  • Number: 2013/19
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
This project is based on the experiences derived from the first Waste Sites project of 2011-2012 which confirmed the assumption that in order to control illegal waste exports from the EU more effectively – notably of e-waste and end-of-life vehicles – it is important to target the sources of these waste streams and the “upstream” facilities where the waste is collected, stored and/or treated before the export. Site-oriented policing...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Eliminating illegal killing, trapping and trade of birds

  • Number: 2013/18
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
Halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity by 2020 is a priority within the European Union. The implementation of EU Nature legislation (the Birds and Habitat Directives) is essential to achieve the EU 2020 biodiversity target. However, implementation and enforcement need to be improved. A relatively high number of complaints and infringement procedures related to these nature Directives reach the EC every year. There is a lot of work to be done if we want to reach the goals for 2020: only 17%...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands & European Commission

Compliance assurance through company compliance management systems, phase 2

  • Number: 2013/15
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
In many countries industrial companies are supervised by authorities who regularly carry out site inspections and perform other “traditional” compliance checks like assessing emissions reports. But how effective and efficient are these output oriented supervision activities in terms of achieving good compliance with environmental regulation or even environmental performance beyond compliance? Bigger (multinational) companies who have internal environmental and safety management systems in place...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

Using supply chains to reduce environmental impact

  • Number: 2013/14
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
There is increasing interest in European Union member states in using complementary interventions alongside traditional methods such as environmental inspections to improve the implementation and compliance of environmental legislation and deliver better environmental outcomes. In 2011 IMPEL carried out a project to explore the use and effectiveness of complementary approaches to inspections for ensuring compliance. This project identified the most commonly used approaches in IMPEL members states...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK (England & Wales)

Choosing Appropriate Interventions, phase 2

  • Number: 2013/13
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
There is increasing interest in European Union member states in using complementary interventions alongside traditional methods such as environmental inspections to improve the implementation and compliance of environmental legislation and deliver better environmental outcomes. In 2011, an IMPEL Project was carried out on “Exploring the use and effectiveness of complementary approaches to inspection for ensuring compliance”. The project identified a number of approaches that are being used...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK (England & Wales)

Cross cutting the Environmental Inspection Cycle

  • Number: 2013/12
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
Since the development of the step-by-step guidance book many IMPEL projects has been executed and a good number of tools, methodologies, procedures, good practice and other information has been developed and collected. The reports of these projects are stored on the IMPEL website. In practice we see that all developed tools, methodologies, procedures and information are somehow related to each other and related to the Environmental Inspection Cycle however this connection is not always clear because...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

Environmental inspections of industrial installations in accordance with the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) – Drawing up of IRAM related inspection programmes

  • Number: 2013/08
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
On 6 January 2011 the Industrial Emissions Directive entered into force, and its provisions listed in Article 80(1) have to be transposed into national law within two years. The IED sets new requirements on the inspection of industrial installations as described in Article 23 of the Directive. The obligations on routine environmental inspections constitute a new challenge for the EU member states.
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany and UK (Scotland)