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Projects - Portugal

Incidental Releases from Industrial Installations

  • Number: 2006/17
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2006
The aim has been to address key issues and identify good practices for dealing with incidental releases in industrial installations. Some of the key findings:
  • definition of incidental releases and guidance to manage such incidental releases should be specified
  • good examples of permit conditions to be applied already exists
  • electronic response is needed from the operator to the authorities to have a written document of the incident
  • 24-hour...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Finland

The inter-relationship of the IPPC Directive with other Directives

  • Number: 2006/16
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2006
The aim of the project was to identify and summarise areas of concern relating to implementation and enforcement of the IPPC Directive arising from its interface with other horizontal and sectoral EU legislative instruments. The output provided a contribution to the Commission's review of the IPPC Directive, both directly and via IMPEL members’ interactions with national authorities who will also provide input to the review. Moreover, it provided a good analysis for both the Commission and Member...
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  • Lead Country:
  • United Kingdom

Emission Trading: Options and proposals for consistency in the implementation of the ETS

  • Number: 2006/13
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2006
This report is a summary of the key findings of the IMPEL project ‘Options and proposals for consistency in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme’. The project focussed on four key areas of the EU ETS, which were identified in a previous IMPEL EU ETS project that reported in 2005, i.e.
  • Small installations;
  • Verification;
  • Compliance and enforcement; and
  • Monitoring and reporting.

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  • Lead Country:
  • United Kingdom

Benchmarking on Quality Parameters for Environmental Inspectorates

  • Number: 2005/09
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2005
The report summarises the results of discussions at a workshop covered goals, targets, parameters, and indicators that reflect the quality of the inspectorate work itself. Specific focus was on practical and operational parameters and indicators that can easily be implemented at national, regional or local level. The participants at the workshop found that the use of parameters to measure and visualise administrative performance of environmental inspectorates is still rather complex and difficult...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Denmark

Resolution of environmental conflicts by neighbourhood dialogue I

  • Number: 2005/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2005

Dialogues and their results have to comply with the law. Legislation sets the framework but also the possibilities for discretion and for dialogue. Before initiating a dialogue process chances and risks should be assessed. The design of a neighbourhood dialogue should always be case specific – responding to the needs of the specific conflict situation.

Dialogues support conflict resolution between companies and neighbours. They...


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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Waste Permitting and Enforcement

  • Number: 2005/10
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2005
The report describes the results of a permitting and enforcement project carried out by twelve EU Member States, aiming at improving cooperation and information exchange on the permitting and enforcement of environmental conditions at landfills and waste incineration plants within the framework of the Integrated pollution prevention and control Council Directive 96/61/EC (IPPC) and the Waste incineration Directive (2000/76/EC), the Landfill of waste directive (99/31/EC). The project is linked to...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

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).
  • beneath...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Austria

Implementation and Use of BREF

  • Number: 2004/12
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2004
Survey on the present practice was complemented, and was used as a basis of discussion during an IMPEL workshop. The discussion has been made in separate working groups on different subject. At the end the results of the group were summarised, then reported, discussed and validated during a plenary session. Some of the conclusions:
  • Information structure at national and EU level should be more clear and accessible for environmental authorities and industry...

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  • Lead Country:
  • France

Emission Trading: Identifying Good Regulatory Practice In The EU Emissions Trading Scheme

  • Number: 2004/11
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2004
The project on which this report is based set out to identify good regulatory practice in relation to the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), which was established by Directive 2003/87/EC, and to inform the second phase of the EU ETS. It was organised through IMPEL and the information analysed in the project was obtained using a questionnaire that was distributed to regulatory authorities in a number of EU Member States. The questionnaire was finalised on the basis of discussions held at an initial...
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  • Lead Country:
  • United Kingdom

Best practices concerning training and qualifications for environmental inspectors

  • Number: 2003/04
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2003
This report describes the results of an IMPEL project on best practices concerning the training and qualifications of environmental inspectors. The project was based on the Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 providing for minimum criteria for environmental inspections in the Member States (2001/331/EC).
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  • Lead Country:
  • France