Projects - 2009

Drawing on the work of the IMPEL Better Regulation Cluster to develop and use a checklist on the practicability and enforceability (P&E) of legislation, the TFS Cluster carried out an assessement of the Recast of the WEEE Directive. Initially views from IMPEL members were collected via a questionnaire and on 27 April 2009 a workshop was held at the new IMPEL offices in Brussels to discuss the findings.

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This seminar  took place on 3-4 June, 2009 in Paris (France): 19 countries involved, including France – registration of 270 persons including 44 participants coming from EU countries apart from France including Turkey and Croatia - presentations of 21 recent accidents.

Various kinds of recent accidents concerning different fields were presented : e.g. 3 accidents in refineries, major release of oil in a tank farm in Ambes in...

The aim of the project was to define the 10 performance indicators proposed by the 2008 IMPEL project “ Brainstorming on an IMPEL Project to develop performance indicators for environmental inspectorates “, to assess their strength and weaknesses, and to run a pilot test among a short list of IMPEL members. On this basis, a revised and as precisely defined as possible list of indicators was proposed, together with a qualitative assessment of each the indicators.

Intensive pig farms above a specified capacity are regulated under the IPPC Directive. However, it has been noted that the control of environmental impacts can be difficult and the permitting and in spection regimes with regard to these installations show difference s between the Member States. In order to examine the range of practice in the Member States, this IMPEL project was undertaken.

The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme developed by the IMPEL Network providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries.

In line with the Recommendation for Minimum Criteria for Environmental Inspections (RMCEI), this informal review of the Portuguese Environmental and Spatial Planning General Inspectorate (IGAOT) by a broad cross section of the IMPEL network, focused upon the inspection and enforcement...

A neighbourhood dialogue is a voluntary communication instrument to solve environmental problems and conflicts between industrial sites and their neighbours. It is either established by a company concerned or by authorities. The quality assessment (during and at the end of the process) should become an integrated part of the process. The main outcome of the project is the Guideline for Self-Evaluation of Neighbourhood Dia­logues with the toolbox containing:  1)  characteristics...

This project aimed to:

• Establish contacts in key African countries with Competent Authorities (focus on West Africa);
• Assess current situation regarding (illegal) imports from the EU, enforcement structures, treatment possibilities, problematic waste streams and import restrictions;
• Agree on how to deal with verification requests and detected illegal shipments and their return.

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....