Spain | IMPEL

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)

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

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

IMPEL-TFS Prosecutor Project

Number: 2012/12
Status: Running
Period: 2012

The compliance deficit of the Basel Convention and the European Waste Shipment Regulation (1013/2006) or ‘WSR’ is very serious and past experience indicates that we are dealing with organised crime in many cases. Figures indicate that about 20% of all waste shipments are in violation. IMPEL-TFS project results illustrate that within the enforcement and prosecution of the WSR it is very necessary to work together as competent authorities. In the whole chain of one waste shipment, multiple authorities...
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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

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.

Energy efficiency in permitting and inspections

Number: 2010/05
Status: Finalised
Period: 2010

The main objectives of the project were:

to explore how member states have implemented in practice the energy efficiency provisions of the IPPC directive and handle obstacles
to identify how member states enforce their legal requirements in this field
to find out what kind of information is required in permit applications e.g. energy efficiency indicators
to analyse how member states work with the BREF Energy Efficiency and information of other BREFs...

Resolution of environmental conflict through Neighbourhood Dialogue, phase 4

Number: 2010/04
Status: Finalised
Period: 2010

The focus of the project was to promote the use of neighbourhood dialogues as an instrument for the solution of environmental conflicts by developing concise step-by-step instructions based on the “Toolkit” and the “Self-Evaluation Guidelines” and testing them on live cases (to see previous Neighbourhood Dialogue projects). The project aimed to:

Develop a PowerPoint presentation and instructions which can be used...

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