Projects - 2007

The objective of the project was to build a picture of existing practice in Member States on the tariffs the operators have to pay to the competent authorities to cover the costs for the prior verification and inspections necessary to evaluate the application of the permit, and the successive environmental controls/inspections (including compliance, site visits, sampling etc.).

Cement production process is a complex industrial activity that can potentially affects environment with high impacts. Facing different experiences and know-hows demonstrated that monitoring only stack emissions cannot be an efficient control strategy; it's important to implement an integrated control action that takes into account also production process and technologies adopted, as a stable and controlled process conduction is the first guarantee of compliance assurance....

During controls of waste shipments, cases of non-compliance are detected by the inspectors on a regular basis. For these situations, the legislation has included take-back obligations. To support the involved authorities in the actual arrangements of repatriating the waste, IMPEL TFS has developed a guidance manual.

During the IMPEL TFS activities it was generally acknowledged that there are interpretation differences and that they frustrate adequate control and enforcement of Waste Shipment Regulation. The objective of the pilot project was to collect WSR decisions of authorities in a database, so that decisions can be viewed and understood and so that decisions can be compared and differences in interpretation can be identified.

The intended...

The project aims to carry out a threat assessment on the export of end of life and second hand vehicles to various destinations, particularly to African and Eastern Europe Countries. Priorities identified were: “waste of electrical and electronic equipment, end of life vehicles, plastics, green waste, enforcement weeks and cooperation with country of destination. The aim of the project is: 1.    To define and clarify the categories of vehicles intended for export...

The projects and activities of the TFS cluster are based on the European Waste Shipment Regulation, 259/93. 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 also meets on a regular basis to exchange practical experiences.

In 2006 two IMPEL-TFS projects which had a lot of impact (Seaports and Verification) ended. Both...

• continue performing inspections;
• improve (inter)national cooperation and exchange of knowledge and experience;
• develop and improve enforcement tools.