Romania | IMPEL

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)

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

IRI Italy (Lombardia)

Number: 2012/01
Status: Finalised
Period: 2012

The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries. It was set up to implement the European Parliament and Council Recommendation (2001/331/EC) providing for minimum criteria for environmental inspections (RMCEI), where it states: “Member States should assist each other administratively in operating this Recommendation. The establishment by Member States in cooperation with IMPEL of reporting and advice schemes relating...
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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

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

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...

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)

The Licensing of installations in ambient air polluted zones

Number: 2007/19
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

This project aimed to contribute to the exchange of experiences and information of inspectors and technical experts from IMPEL MS in the licensing of installations in relation to the ambient air regulations. The focal point of this project was the information and exchange of experience between the participating inspectors and technical experts of IMPEL MS. Moreover a common approach should be defined to minimize competitive disadvantages.
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Lead Country:
Austria

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