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Emission Trading: Proposals for future development of the EU ETS – Phase II & beyond

Number: 2007/9
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

Member State governments, regulators, operators and verifiers have been on a steep learning curve over the last two years since commencement of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The experience gained during this time will be invaluable in shaping the future development of the scheme. Furthermore the Commission announced that it will undertake a review of the Directive and this presented an opportunity for Member State Competent Authorities to influence the future development of the scheme...
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Lead Country:
United Kingdom

Review of Compliance promotion, Inspections practices, and Enforcement for IPPC installations

Number: 2007/8
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

This report summarizes the replies received from 25 Competent Authorities (CAs) in 16 different Member States (MS) to a questionnaire on the implementation of Article 14 of the IPPC Directive. Member States were asked to provide practical information on their inspection planning and practices and enforcement activities, which should ensure that IPPC installations are operated in compliance with the Directive's requirements. The responses received show that, although there is no explicit provision...
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Lead Country:
EC

IMPEL input to the further development of the RMCEI

Number: 2007/07
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

This project can be regarded as complementary to the project 'Doing the right thing II: developing a step-by-step guidance book for planning of environmental inspections'. In the first phase of the project a questionnaire was developed asking for each part of the RMCEI whether it should be amended and if yes how. Answers to the questionnaire were received from 22 countries. It is important to note that the replies do not necessarily reflect the views of the whole country or region represented....
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Lead Country:
EC

IMPEL Review Initiative: Phase 4 9th review: Norway June 2007

Number: 2007/06
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

This report describes the results of the ninth review of Phase 4 of the IMPEL Review Initiative (IRI) Project. This review was carried out in June 2007 by the kind co-operation of Norway. These findings are set out in terms of examples of good practice for other Member State Inspecting Authorities and in terms of opportunities for development by the host Inspecting Authority. Further lessons for the review process were also noted and are recorded in the report.
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Lead Country:
Norway

Comparison programme on methodologies used for administrative fine calculation

Number: 2007/17
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

Administrative fines are available to almost all of the countries. Having as starting point that the development and the present status of the relevant administrative legislative frame varies, significantly among EU MS, administrative fines are applied with deviated rationale and methodology. In general, in the majority of countries variable administrative fines are applied, while in some other, fixed administrative ones are also available. In all cases, the relevant legislation determines the...
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Lead Country:
Greece

Lessons Learned from Accidents – 2007

Number: 2007/14
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

A seminar for environmental inspectors from EU MS to exchange information and experiences on lessons learnt from serious industrial accidents was held in May 2007 in Paris. During this seminar 19 recent industrial accidents of different EU MS were presented. 3 accidents in refineries, explosion in the Buncefield oil farm in 2005 in the UK, a release of crude oil in Belgium in 2005, release of toxic gas from a vacuum truck at an installation for treating hazardous waste in Germany in 2005, explosion...
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Lead Country:
France

Practicability and Enforceability of the IPPC Recast Proposal

Number: 2007/13
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

The report highlights a wide range of P&E issues. The project has been careful to avoid issues of a more political nature (also of interest to IMPEL members) which should be addressed through the usual procedure of the legislators in the co-decision process. Most IMPEL members generally stressed their positive views on the changes in the Recast Proposal affecting P&E, recognizing the work that had been undertaken to achieve this leading to the streamlining of the current pieces of legislation...
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Lead Country:
Netherlands

Review of Approaches to the Reconsideration and Updating of IPPC Permits

Number: 2007/12
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

This project looked at how IMPEL members have implemented, or expect to implement, Articles 13 (1) and (2) of the IPPC Directive 1996/61/EC.

The responses indicate a variety of approaches to the understanding and implementation of Articles 13(1) and (2). Most responses emphasise reconsidering the permit as a whole.
A common core focus is to ensure that permit conditions remain appropriate in view of developments in best available techniques (BAT).
Some responses...

Doing the right things II: Step-by-step guidance book for planning of environmental inspections

Number: 2007/11
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

In 2006 the Netherlands led an IMPEL Comparison Programme Doing the right things I. One of the main aims of this project was to explore how inspection authorities set priorities with regard to their tasks and activities, being one of the key steps in setting up inspection plans. An important recommendation of this project was to develop a practical guide on planning of environmental inspections, that would be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the different needs...

Resolution of environmental conflicts by neighbourhood dialogue II (Toolkit)

Number: 2007/01
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

Neighourhood dialogues prevent, manage and resolve conflicts effectively and efficiently by building up trust, by looking for win-win solutions and by creating sustainable good neighbourhood relations. Their goal is to share information openly, to develop recommendations for the company and sometimes even to cooperate and negotiate to agree on a solution.

Experience has shown that this systematic communication approach leads to...

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