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IRI Croatia

  • Number: 2011/02
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2011
  • Lead Country: Croatia

  • Project team countries:
    Croatia

  • Participating countries:
    Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Finland, IMPEL Secretariat, Italy and Croatia.

Executive Summary

The IRI would focus on RMCEI, IPPC, SEVESO and all other relevant processes. This particular IRI would include the following aspects:

  • the legal and constitutional setting of the inspectorate,
  • structure and managerial organisation, including funding, staffing and lines of authority and responsibility for regulatory and policy functions,
  • workload, in terms of numbers of IPPC processes and Annex 1 category,
  • qualifications, skills and experience of inspection staff,
  • procedures for the execution and reporting of routine and non-routine inspections,
  • procedures for assesment of training needs and provisions for training and maintaining current awareness,
  • procedures, criteria and guidance for the development and revision of inspection plans and inspection schedules,
  • setting the priorities for IPPC installations: the evaluation aspects, the risk assesment and classifications of risk,
  • performance monitoring: evaluation of the output and where feasible environmental outcome of inspection activities. The arrangements for internal assesment of the quality of inspection performance and for improvement if appropriate,
  • arrangements for reporting on inspectorate activities.


Project description

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 to inspectorates and inspection procedures would help to promote best practice across the Community.”