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Executive Summary

On 2, 3 and 4 of June 2010 the annual IMPEL-TFS conference was held in Basel, Switzerland. 108 Delegates from 26 IMPEL Member Countries, Serbia and Switzerland and representatives from the Secretariat of the Basel Convention, the World Customs Organizations, Interpol, the European Commission (DG Environment and DG TAXUD), the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China, the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department and the Japanese Ministry of Environment attended the meeting. Also representatives from Eurometaux and the EMPA Institute attended a part of the meeting. The conference concentrated on the ongoing activities and projects of the IMPEL TFS cluster, new project proposals, the new IMPEL TFS Multi Annual Work Plan 2011 –2015, collaboration with the Asian and African region, further collaboration with Customs and Public Prosecutors and risk-based inspection planning systems. Furthermore some interesting case studies and national collaboration initiatives were presented and the IMPEL TFS Training DVD was launched.