IMPEL has successfully completed an English language translation of a Danish Ministry of Environment / Danish Environment Protection Agency document called: “Classifying Green List waste under the ‘Waste Shipments Regulation’ (Regulation No 1013/2006) – practical guidelines”. The guidelines are solely the work of the Danish EPA and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of IMPEL as [...]...
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From the 24-25th November the IMPEL network held its 8th General Assembly meeting in Warsaw, Poland as part of its continuing efforts to facilitate good cooperation, share experiences and learn from one another to better implement and enforce EU environmental legislation. The network agreed to support 22 projects in 2012 looking at new approaches to regulation, the [...]...
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INECE (in cooperation with IMPEL) co-facilitated an international workshop in Rotterdam on the 14-15 November in which authorities and organizations met with stakeholders from the shipping industry to find common ground for effective approaches to fight illegal transnational hazardous waste shipments. Such shipments are in conflict with the provisions of the Basel Convention and cause [...]...
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The European Commission has unveiled its 2012 work programme.
An annex to the report can be seen here.
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A report for the European Commission has concluded that: “as an indicative estimate, the costs of implementation gaps in relation to current legally binding targets could be around 50 billion per year”.
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Regulatory authorities from 28 European countries have joined forces to better tackle the problem of illegal waste shipments. Within the framework of the IMPEL project: Enforcement Actions II, more than 26,000 transports have been inspected. An average of 21% of the inspected waste shipments was not in compliance with European waste shipment rules. The violations [...]...
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