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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

Waste Sites, phase 2

  • Number: 2012/18
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
Under Article 34(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste, establishments or undertakings which carry out waste treatment operations, establishments or undertakings which collect or transport waste on a professional basis, brokers and dealers, and establishments or undertakings which produce hazardous waste shall be subject to appropriate periodic inspections by the competent authorities. Recent discussions in IMPEL-TFS and among high-level inspectors have addressed, among other things, the necessity...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

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

Doing the Right Things for Waste Shipment Inspections (DTRT-TFS), phase 2

  • Number: 2012/14
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
This IMPEL-project explores the usefulness of the DTRT methodology for waste shipment inspections with the ultimate aim of providing a practical tool, based on the DTRT Guidance Book, which can help improve the organisation of waste shipment inspections by competent authorities in the IMPEL member countries. Three competent authorities from...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

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

Setting Inspection Targets and Monitoring Performance, phase 2

  • Number: 2012/05
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
In the IMPEL “Doing the right things” (DTRT) project, a Guidance Book was produced to assist environmental authorities plan inspections. The Guidance Book uses an Environmental Inspection Cycle that is divided into a number of connected steps of which planning is one step and performance monitoring is another step. According to the Guidance Book authorities should, as part of their inspection planning, define measurable targets on desired outputs and outcomes and...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands and Portugal

Transfrontier shipment of e-waste

  • Number: 2010/18
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010/11
The main objectives of this project were to:
  • To deliver an up to date threat assessment that identifies how effectively the WEEE Directive is being implemented in Member States and the risks e-waste exports pose to the EU
  • To understand the scope and scale of the e-waste export trade in Europe, who is involved and what happens to shipments leaving Europe and what the problems are that occur in the countries of destination
  • To develop and provide to IMPEL TFS members...

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  • Lead Country:
  • UK - England & Wales

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.