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EU – African enforcement collaboration 2012

• Number: 2012/17
• Status: Running
• Period: 2012
• Lead Country: TBC
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  Project team countries:
  United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland
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  Participating countries:
  United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland

Project description

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 always the case in countries of destination outside Europe.

Some major waste streams find their way to African countries. Mainly the end-of-life vehicles and E-waste streams. The treatment of these streams there raises some doubts and better collaboration between the involved authorities is required. In 2008 IMPEL TFS has established contacts with some African countries and other networks that are active on that continent. Since then the collaboration has steadily improved and expanded.

Moreover, in February 2008 IMPEL has signed a MoU with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC). Within the framework of this MoU, IMPEL and the SBC have agreed to collaborate on component 4 of the SBC’s E-wastes to Africa project. This project, launched in 2009 is aiming to equip West Africa and other African countries to be able to tackle the growing problem of e-waste import coming from industrialised countries and thereby protect the health of citizens. The project has 4 components:

1. A study of the flow of e-waste into Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria
2. A national assessment on e-waste in Benin, Ghana and Nigeria
3. A socio-economic study on e-waste in Nigeria with a feasibility of international cooperation between African SMEs and European recycling companies. The same study will be carried out in Ghana.
4. An enforcement programme in Benin, Egypt, Ghana and Nigeria led by IMPEL with the aim of preventing illegal export from Europe to West Africa.

Activities and outcomes under component 4 so far are:

• training of 19 African officials in Europe on e-waste management and inspections;
• 4 national e-waste enforcement workshops in the participating African states;
• the development of an e-waste monitoring toolkit and;
• the start of an enforcement network between EU and African countries.

Parallel to the latter outcome, a West African Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (WANECE) has been set up per November 2011, under the umbrella of INECE. Both enforcement networks, together with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention and the BC Regional Centers will explore the opportunities to align the activities, to carry out joint activities and attend each others meetings.