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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

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

Linking the Water Framework and IPPC/IE Directives, phase 3

  • Number: 2013/11
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
The IPPC Directive 2008/1/EC (now IED 2010/75/EU) 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). They are also required...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Austria

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)

Evaluation of the 2012 IMPEL projects on the inspection IPPC pig farming installations and landfill sites

  • Number: 2013/07
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
In 2009 and 2011-2012 a comparison program on permitting and inspection of IPPC pig farming installations in IMPEL member countries was carried out. The  project focused on five key issues: manure storage, manure spreading, animal housing system, air-abatement systems and odour assessment. The aim of the project in 2009 was to learn from each other, to exchange experiences and identify good practices. During the project a network has been built up using IMPEL's internal project management system...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

DECO Project – IMPEL Project on decontamination and monitoring procedures of groundwater and soils in polluted ex-industrial sites

  • Number: 2013/05
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2013
Soil is one of the four natural elements fundamental for life of humans, plants and animals. Due to historical industrialization processes, Europe has some of the most contaminated soils and groundwater in the world, and its protection is a priority for many European environmental authorities. The European Union created during the years a regulatory environment in order to protect soil and groundwater: the Landfill Directives (1999/31/EC), the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), the Environmental...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Italy (Lombardia)

Waste Sites, phase 2

  • Number: 2012/18
  • Status: Finalised
  • 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: 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

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

  • Number: 2012/14
  • Status: Finalised
  • 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

Setting Inspection Targets and Monitoring Performance, phase 2

  • Number: 2012/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • 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