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Using the IMPEL Practicability and Enforceability Checklist to assess the Waste Shipment Regulation

  • Number: 2011/15
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
In order to encourage policymakers, legislators and stakeholders to devote more attention to likely problems of practicability in implementation and enforceability throughout the legislative process, with a view to anticipating and remedying practicability and enforceability problems through a pro-active approach, IMPEL has produced a practical checklist to assess the practicability and enforceability of existing and new legislation with the aim of improving the overall implementation of EU environmental...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK - England & Wales

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

Cooperation and Awareness Raising to Prevent Illegal Traffic in Waste to non-OECD countries in Asia

  • Number: 2011/19
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
Large amounts of post-consumer wastes such as electronic wastes are being exported from Europe to Asia. Many exports take place with the alleged intent of re-use or recycling but often result in residual hazardous materials being disposed of in an environmentally unsound manner. Many exports are illegal and in violation of the Basel Convention, or the EU Waste Shipments Regulation. Awareness raising concerning existing laws and illegal traffic is needed among various stakeholders. Cooperation is...
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  • Lead Country:
  • TFS Secretariat

IMPEL TFS – African collaboration follow up

  • Number: 2011/20
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
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. The past years, IMPEL TFS has invested in establishing contacts in Asian countries, mainly...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Norway

Exploring the use and effectiveness of complementary approaches to inspection for ensuring compliance

  • Number: 2011/22
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
As part of the better regulation agenda, there is an increasing interest in using complementary measures to traditional regulation methods to deliver improved environmental outcomes, but little evidence of their effectiveness.
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Engaging stakeholders around priority implementation issues for EU law for 2012 to 2015

  • Number: 2011/23
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
One of the Commission’s key priorities is the effective implementation of EU law.  As a network of regulatory practitioners IMPEL is ideally placed to help improve implementation of EU law through the practical knowledge and experience of its members.  This project will engage key stakeholders – including IMPEL members, other environmental authorities, industry, NGOs, European Commission and other networks –  to discuss priority areas and identify issues and potential areas of activity for...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Compliance assurance and company compliance management systems

  • Number: 2011/04
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
In many countries Industrial companies are supervised by authorities who regularly carry out site inspections and perform other “traditional” compliance checks like assessing emissions reports. But how effective and efficient are these output oriented supervision activities in terms of achieving good compliance with environmental regulation or even environmental performance beyond compliance? Bigger (multinational) companies who have internal environmental and safety management systems in place...
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  • Lead Country:
  • The Netherlands

Comparison Programme on the implementation and enforcement of Air Quality standards in relation to industrial air emissions (PIAQ), phase 2

  • Number: 2011/03
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
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

IRI Latvia

  • Number: 2011/01
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries. It was set up to implement the European Parliament and Council Recommendation (2001/331/EC) providing for minimum criteria for environmental inspections (RMCEI), where it states: “Member States should assist each other administratively in operating this Recommendation.  The establishment by Member States in cooperation with IMPEL of reporting and advice schemes relating...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Latvia