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Projects - 2011

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)

Development of an easy and flexible risk assessment tool as a part of the planning of environmental inspections linked to European environmental law and the RMCEI (easyTools), phase 2

  • Number: 2011/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
The aim of the new project is to develop a flexible and user friendly programme for the risk assessment within the planning of environmental inspections as an application from the internet. The risk assessment tool will be part of the “planning cycle” described in the “Step by step guidance book for planning of environmental inspection” developed by the “Doing The Right Things” project (DTRT). It will take into account the needs of the IMPEL member countries as well as the requirements...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Energy efficiency in permitting and inspections, phase 2

  • Number: 2011/06
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
Energy is a priority issue within the European Union. The EU Climate Change and Energy package forsees an increase in energy efficiency of 20% and a reduction of greenhouse gases by 20% by 2020. In 2002/03 IMPEL carried out a project on energy efficiency (EE) with Finland as the lead country. A second project was carried out in 2010 and the evaluation of the current situation showed that during recent years only minor changes have occurred in the consideration of energy efficiency issues in permitting...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Setting Inspection Targets and Monitoring Performance

  • Number: 2011/07
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2011
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:
  • Portugal

Exploring qualitative and quantitative assessment tools to evaluate the performance of environmental inspectorates across the EU

  • Number: 2011/08
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
This project follows on from two previous IMPEL projects (Brainstorming on indicators and Indicators Pilot project). The first project collated a long list of indicators used in Member States and selected a small number for further testing in the second project.  The Pilot project then tested these indicators in a small number of volunteer Member States. It concluded that setting general indicators as a stand alone tool with the aim of comparing the performance of inspecting authorities in the EU...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Lessons learnt from accidents: Conference in Aix en Provence 2011

  • Number: 2011/10
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
Data collection and analysis concerning accidents is necessary in order to prevent new accidents from occurring again. As a consequence, it is mandatory for inspectors to have illustrations of accidents situations, in order to understand what happened indeed and which measures were finally taken in such situations.  
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  • Lead Country:
  • France

Linking the implementation of the Water Framework Directive to the implementation of the IPPC Directive, phase 2

  • Number: 2011/11
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
The IPPC Directive 2008/1/EC and Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC are two of the most wide-reaching items of EU environmental law. They have presented many challenges to the Member States and continue to do so. These challenges have included interpretation of the provisions of the Directives and the enormous practicalities of implementation. Impel started a project named  “Linking the implementation of the Water Framework Directive to the implementation of the IPPC Directive”. This...
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  • Lead Country:
  • The Netherlands

Strategies of Enforcement

  • Number: 2011/12
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
Enforcement is the tool that the authorities can use to achieve compliance with the regulation. Compliance with the legal requirements is an essential foundation for environmental protection. Without compliance, environmental requirements will not achieve the desired results. Enforcement is an important action second to regulation, inspection and identification of non-compliance. This project can be considered as a continuation of previous IMPEL projects like: Review of Compliance promotion, Inspections...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Denmark

The implementation of the environmental impact assessment on the basis of precise examples

  • Number: 2011/13
  • Status: Postponed
  • Period: 2011
The Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA Directive was adopted in 1985 and was first amended in 1997. The EIA procedure ensures that the environmental consequences of projects are identified and assessed before authorisation is given. The public can give its opinion and all results are taken into account in the authorisation procedure of the project. The public is informed of the decision afterwards. The EIA Directive outlines the project categories which should be made subject to an EIA, the procedure...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Austria

National Contact Point (NCP) Exchange Days 2011

  • Number: 2011/14
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
International cooperation and alignment is very important when it comes to the enforcement of the European Waste Shipment Regulations (WSR). (1013/2006); Previous IMPEL-TFS projects showed that it is very much needed to work together as competent authorities. The enforcement deficit of the EU waste shipment regulation is serious. To improve the collaboration and alignment of enforcement, frequent contact between the European enforcement authorities is necessary. Therefore it would be very helpful...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany & The Netherlands