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IMPEL TFS – Africa E-waste project

  • Number: 2010/14
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
To ensure that waste is shipped to licensed facilities and treated in an environmentally sound manner without damaging the environment and human health, it is necessary to follow waste from its origin to its final destination. In case of waste shipments and treatment within the EU, the network of contacts exists and can be used for requests. This is not yet the case in countries of destination outside Europe. However, some major waste streams also find their way to African countries. Mainly the...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Norway

IMPEL TFS Conference 2012

  • Number: 2012/13
  • Status: Running
  • 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

EU – African enforcement collaboration 2012

  • Number: 2012/17
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
To ensure that waste is shipped to licensed facilities and treated in an environmentally sound manner without damaging the environment and human health, it is necessary to follow waste from its origin to its final destination. In case of waste shipments and treatment within the EU, the network of contacts exists and can be used for requests. This is not yet always the case in countries of destination outside Europe. Some major waste streams find their way to African countries. Mainly the end-of-life...
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  • Lead Country:
  • TBC

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)

IMPEL TFS Conference 2011

  • Number: 2011/16
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
The projects and activities of the TFS cluster 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...
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  • Lead Country:
  • TFS Secretariat

European Waste Enforcement Actions/Joint inspections of waste shipments, phase 2

  • Number: 2011/18
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
Trans-frontier shipments of waste are regulated by a number of international agreements in order to prevent shipments of harmful waste to countries that do not have the technology for environmentally sound disposal or recovery. In the EU the European Waste Shipment Regulation obliges member states to carry out inspections and to exchange information about illegal shipments. Throughout the project 28 countries reported 26.705 inspections that were executed at random or as target-oriented inspections...
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  • Lead Country:
  • The Netherlands

IMPEL TFS – African collaboration follow up

  • Number: 2011/20
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2011
To ensure that waste is shipped to licensed facilities and treated in an environmentally sound manner without damaging the environment and human health, it is necessary to follow waste from its origin to its final destination. In case of waste shipments and treatment within the EU, the network of contacts exists and can be used for requests. This is not yet the case in countries of destination outside Europe. The past years, IMPEL TFS has invested in establishing contacts in Asian countries, mainly...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Norway

IMPEL TFS Conference 2010

  • Number: 2010/11
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
The yearly IMPEL TFS conference brings together many delegates from many different organisations both from within IMPEL and those outside of our network to discuss better implementation and enforcement of legislation in the field of trans-frontier shipments of waste.
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  • Lead Country:
  • TFS Secretariat

Enforcement Actions II

  • Number: 2008/05
  • Status: Running
  • Period: October 2008 - March 2011

The main objectives of this project are to work towards an adequate level of inspections in all Member States and at all exit points of the EU, to introduce complete measures in order to prevent and detect illegal waste shipments and to deter illegal waste exporters, to verify waste destination and the treatment at destination within or outside Europe, to set up training and exchange programmes for inspectors, and to maintain and improve the network and collaboration...


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  • Lead Country:
  • The Netherlands

IMPEL TFS Annual Conference 2008

  • Number: 2008/06
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2008

The projects and activities of the TFS cluster 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. Ongoing IMPEL-TFS projects continue to show the need for establishing and above all maintaining good and practical collaboration between...


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  • Lead Country:
  • Bulgaria