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Projects - Romania

Resolution of environmental conflicts by neighbourhood dialogue II (Toolkit)

  • Number: 2007/01
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2007

Neighourhood dialogues prevent, manage and resolve conflicts effectively and efficiently by building up trust, by looking for win-win solutions and by creating sustainable good neighbourhood relations. Their goal is to share information openly, to develop recommendations for the company and sometimes even to cooperate and negotiate to agree on a solution.

Experience has shown that this systematic communication approach leads to...


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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

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

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

Information Exchange on e-Reporting

  • Number: 2003/15
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2003
The project concluded that: The benefits accruing from e-reporting are better transparency and better quality information that is more easily analysed, manipulated and reported on to both institutional bodies and the public. There is no technological barrier to the implementation of e-reporting systems. The difficulties in implementing these systems relate to the specification of the information to be collected and identifying in advance the subsequent uses of this information. While e-reporting...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Ireland

Comparison programme: Condoning – Compliance promotion – Communication – ISO/EMAS – One page permits

  • Number: 2001/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2001
The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment from the Netherlands hosted the third Comparison Programme in the new series. The Netherlands called inspectors from the EU countries and inspectors from the candidate AC countries to participate in the Comparison Programme on October 25th up to October 28th in Haarlem capital city of the province of North Holland. During the programme and at the end of the meeting the participants were asked to give their opinion on the Programme, the content...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

Workshop on Integrated Permitting

  • Number: 2000/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2000
Some of the important conclusions were:
  • The permits should be precise and unambiguous.
  • An Interpretation and Glossary of Terms should be included in the permits.
  • All permits should require monitoring by the permitted facility and the Regulator should also carry out some monitoring.
  • EMS may or may not be appropriate for all operators. The EMS reporting workload may cause problems for Inspectors but can play a vital role in an Improvements Programme.
  • BREF...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Ireland

Workshop on the Use of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Industrial Plants

  • Number: 2000/03
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2000
The conclusions that could be drawn from the workshop were:
  • The VOC-directive is a starting point in the right direction, but its implementation has to be monitored and the obligation for soil-gas-analysis has to be amended.
  • The different technical standard in the MS and AC requires harmonisation in form of BAT or EN-documents.
  • Tighter national regulations/standards must still exist beneath VOC - directive
  • Generally there is an urgent need for information...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Austria