Projects - Finalised

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...

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....

Current information suggests that with increased turnover of electrical goods by consumers, few ‘bring back’ schemes yet to ensure compliance with the WEEE Directive and relatively high costs of recovery and recycling in member states compared to export for ‘recycling’ or insufficient capacity for recovery and recycling in some member state countries it is believed that compliance with the WSR is poor with illegal shipments of WEEE being exported out of Europe...

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.

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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 aim of this project was the improvement of the European enforcement of waste shipment regulation as laid down in EU Regulation 259/93 and the Basel convention, by improved cooperation between the enforcement authorities.

The project identified several levels of improvement. A network of enforcers in the participating ports was formed and this network is used to exchange information about violations of the regulation, differences...

Main aim of the IMPEL-TFS Seaport II project is to improve inspections and the enforcement of regulations on the transfrontier shipments of waste, and to align enforcement actions between seaports, organisations and countries involved. The project also aims to stimulate cooperation and information exchange on national and international scale, to set up a network of European contacts, to identify specific seaport enforcement problems, and to raise awareness at the general...