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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

Transfrontier shipment of e-waste

  • Number: 2010/18
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010/11
The main objectives of this project were to:
  • To deliver an up to date threat assessment that identifies how effectively the WEEE Directive is being implemented in Member States and the risks e-waste exports pose to the EU
  • To understand the scope and scale of the e-waste export trade in Europe, who is involved and what happens to shipments leaving Europe and what the problems are that occur in the countries of destination
  • To develop and provide to IMPEL TFS members...

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  • Lead Country:
  • UK - England & Wales

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)

The Licensing of installations in ambient air polluted zones

  • Number: 2007/19
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2007
This project aimed to contribute to the exchange of experiences and information of inspectors and technical experts from IMPEL MS in the licensing of installations in relation to the ambient air regulations. The focal point of this project was the information and exchange of experience between the participating inspectors and technical experts of IMPEL MS. Moreover a common approach should be defined to minimize competitive disadvantages.
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  • Lead Country:
  • Austria

Energy efficiency in permitting and inspections

  • Number: 2010/05
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
The main objectives of the project were:
  • to explore how member states have implemented in practice the energy efficiency provisions of the IPPC directive and handle obstacles
  • to identify how member states enforce their legal  requirements in this field
  • to find out what kind of information is required in permit applications e.g. energy efficiency indicators
  • to analyse how member states work with the BREF Energy Efficiency and information of other BREFs...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Resolution of environmental conflict through Neighbourhood Dialogue, phase 4

  • Number: 2010/04
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
The focus of the project was to promote the use of neighbourhood dialogues as an instrument for the solution of environmental conflicts by developing concise step-by-step instructions based on the “Toolkit” and the “Self-Evaluation Guidelines” and testing them on live cases (to see previous Neighbourhood Dialogue projects). The project aimed to:
  • Develop a PowerPoint presentation and instructions which can be used...

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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Comparison Programme on the implementation and enforcement of Air Quality standards in relation to industrial air emissions (PIAQ) (Comparison Programme Implementation Air Quality standards and industrial air emissions)

  • Number: 2010/07
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010/11
The air quality directive and its daughter directives have been implemented in EU member states in the past years. In 2007, an earlier IMPEL project (with Austria as lead partner) made it possible to exchange expertise in licensing of installations in ambient air polluted zones, based on an inquiry in some member states. A limited scope study in 2009 showed that directives have been implemented in practice in different ways in different IMPEL member states. Contacts between experts in these countries...
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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

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